Aletheia Kallos aletheiak@gmail.com [boundarypointpoint]
2018-04-06 20:10:49 UTC
ken g asked on march 8th in the borderpoint group
a part of China. Thoughts?
to which my reply
with a request that it be forwarded kindly to the original venue
***@yahoogroups.com by anyone who can
is as follows
this terminal sliver & most seaward proruption of jilin province of china
embracing fangchuen village
& extending a very few miles along the left bank & bed of the tumen river &
the west side of a low prolongation of the changkufeng ridge
& lying immediately above the cnkpru tricountry conjunction
did not actually become a part of china til 1886
as is explained however sketchily on pp 11 & 16 here
http://fall.fsulawrc.com/collection/LimitsinSeas/IBS064.pdf
insofar as the full text of the dispositive original treaty of hunchun has
evidently been lost
but another source
albeit in broken & sometimes impenetrable english
http://www.iinews.xyz/trip/2017/12/781.html
gives reason to suppose that this lost treaty of 1886 which provided for
the mentioned slight seaward territorial extension of china
may also have conferred on china the right of access to the sea thru the
remaining few miles of the russian controlled side of the estuary
& it further suggests that this access was later blocked by the soviets by
a low slung railway bridge that spans the estuary just below the
trijunction until the present day
so
tho any grant of access to the sea has effectively been rescinded
& the logical reason you seek for fangchuen being part of china has largely
been forgotten
the territorial concession that was evidently granted for facilitating the
access remains in effect
with thanx in advance
Why is Fangchuan Chinese? Its location must have made it difficult to
survey after 1860, and I canât figure out any logical reason for its beinga part of China. Thoughts?
to which my reply
with a request that it be forwarded kindly to the original venue
***@yahoogroups.com by anyone who can
is as follows
this terminal sliver & most seaward proruption of jilin province of china
embracing fangchuen village
& extending a very few miles along the left bank & bed of the tumen river &
the west side of a low prolongation of the changkufeng ridge
& lying immediately above the cnkpru tricountry conjunction
did not actually become a part of china til 1886
as is explained however sketchily on pp 11 & 16 here
http://fall.fsulawrc.com/collection/LimitsinSeas/IBS064.pdf
insofar as the full text of the dispositive original treaty of hunchun has
evidently been lost
but another source
albeit in broken & sometimes impenetrable english
http://www.iinews.xyz/trip/2017/12/781.html
gives reason to suppose that this lost treaty of 1886 which provided for
the mentioned slight seaward territorial extension of china
may also have conferred on china the right of access to the sea thru the
remaining few miles of the russian controlled side of the estuary
& it further suggests that this access was later blocked by the soviets by
a low slung railway bridge that spans the estuary just below the
trijunction until the present day
so
tho any grant of access to the sea has effectively been rescinded
& the logical reason you seek for fangchuen being part of china has largely
been forgotten
the territorial concession that was evidently granted for facilitating the
access remains in effect
with thanx in advance