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speak not of Weihaiwei but of Weihai
In strictness, therefore, we should speak not of Weihaiwei but of Weihai, which would have the advantage of brevity: though as the old name is used quite as much by the Chinese as by ourselves there is no urgent necessity for a change.
— from Lion and Dragon in Northern China by Johnston, Reginald Fleming, Sir

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