“Slouching” Erratum: Dalian Is in Liaoning, Not Shandong: First Edition p. 134

An elementary mistake in Chinese geography

The passage:

Itō launched the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895. With eleven European-built and two Japanese-built warships, and with an army trained by a Prussian major, Jakob Meckel, Japan quickly won. The major Chinese base and fort of Dalian in Liaoning—Port Arthur—fell to a frontal Japanese assault in one day. Korea and Taiwan were grabbed as Japanese protectorates…

Dalian Is in Liaoning, Not Shandong.