Bailongwei

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 白龍尾島／白龙尾岛 (Báilóngwěi Dǎo).

Proper noun

Bailongwei

1. Synonym of Bạch Long Vĩ: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • [1978 June 6 [1978 June 4], “Haikow's Refugees Accuse SRV”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China‎^[1], volume I, number 109, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A 12‎^[2]:

     The victimized Overseas Chinese are fishermen who used to live on (Pailungwei) Island in the Gulf of Tonkin. […] These Overseas Chinese firmly asked the Vietnamese authorities many times to let them go back to (Pailungwei) Island, where they have lived for generations, to earn a living.]

   • 1990 July 16 [1988 October], Ai Hongren (5337 1347 0088) [艾宏仁], “Chinese Naval Actions Since the Beginning of the Seventies”, in An Inside Look Into the Chinese Communist Navy—Advancing Toward the Blue Water Challenge [中共海軍透視—邁向遠洋的挑戰]‎^[3], Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page 11, column 1:

     According to materials not yet publicly disclosed, Mao Zedong, as early as the fifties and with extreme generosity, gave Bailongwei Island, which is located in the middle of the Gulf of Tonkin and which is in an extremely important strategic position, to the Ho Chi Minh government.

   • 2008, M. Taylor Fravel, “Offshore Island Disputes”, in Strong Borders, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China's Territorial Disputes (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)‎^[4], Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 268-269:

     Since 1949, China has compromised in only one offshore island dispute, the one over White Dragon Tail (Bailongwei) Island, while either delaying or using force in disputes over the Paracel, Spratly, and Senkaku islands.² […]
     In contrast to frontier disputes, external threats explain China’s one attempt to compromise in an offshore island conflict. In 1957, China agreed to transfer White Dragon Tail Island, which lies in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf, to North Vietnam. Unfortunately, very little is known about this dispute and its settlement.³

     ³ See Li Dechao, "Bailongwei dao zhengming" [Rectification of White Dragon Tail Island's Name], Zhongguo bianjiang shidi yanjiu baogao, vols. 1-2, no. 3 (1988): 21-23; Mao Zhenfa, ed., Bianfang lun [On Frontier Defense] (Beijing: Junshi kexue chubanshe [internal circulation], 1996), 137.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Pavneet Singh, “India's Act East Policy, RCEP Diplomacy and Stand on South China Sea Dispute”, in International Relations‎^[5], page 314:

     In 1957, China ceded Bailongwei island to Hanoi. Thus, the two dashes were removed by China to bypass the Gulf of Tonkin as a gesture to North Vietnam.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Bailongwei.