Kuye

Proper noun

Kuye

1. Synonym of Sakhalin: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • In December 1999, then--Chinese president Jiang Zemin (江澤民) and then-Russian president Boris Yeltsin signed a protocol in Beijing by which China ceded to Russia territories north of the Amur (Heilongjiang) River and south of the Stanovoy (or Outer Khingan) Range, lands east of the Ussuri River, the...2011 July 29, Cheng-deng Kuo, “No legal evidence, no sovereignty”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2013, Editorials, page 8
   • As for Heihe, it got rich a quarter-century ago, after capitalizing on Russia’s post-Soviet disarray to sell cheap goods to then-starving Russians. Its own history museum presents the Cossacks as “hairy barbarians” (Lao Maozi) and lists the towns of Russia’s Far East by their historical Chinese...2019 June 12, Nina L. Khrushcheva, “Should Russia hug China?”, in Japan Times, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2019, Opinion

   Synonyms:

   Sakhalin