Lüshun, << lyoo shun >>, lies near the tip of the Liaodong Peninsula in northern China. Lüshun is a district in the city of Dalian. Lüshun was formerly called Port Arthur. There are two sections in Lüshun, the old Chinese city and the new town built by the Russians when they took Lüshun in 1898.
The British named the city Port Arthur when they used it as a base to fight China in 1857. Later, the city became a Chinese naval base. Japan took Lüshun from Russia in 1905, after winning the Russo-Japanese War. After World War II ended in 1945, China and the Soviet Union made an agreement to share the port as a naval base. At that time, Lüshun was combined with the city of Dalian, and, together, they were called Luda. In 1955, the Soviet Union returned Lüshun to full Chinese control.
