"China Seas" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1866 August 18, “LAST NEWS OF ANNA BISHOP”, in The Musical World, volume 44, number 33, London, →OCLC, page 521:",
          "text": "Intelligence has been received at Hong Kong of the total loss of the ship Libelle while on a voyage to that port from San Francisco, having on board a valuable cargo and specie to the extent of £76,000 in dollars, and a number of passengers, among whom were Madame Anna Bishop, Miss Phelan, Mr. M. Schrutz, and Mr. Charles Lascelles, of the English Opera Company, who, with other artists, were on a musical tour. The ship was cast away on the night of the 4th of March, on an uninhabited and dangerous reef called Wake Island, in the China Seas.",
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        "A series of marginal seas in the Western Pacific Ocean around China, including the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the South China Sea."
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          "Yellow Sea",
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          "East China Sea",
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "series of marginal seas",
          "word": "中國海"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "Zhōngguóhǎi",
          "sense": "series of marginal seas",
          "word": "中国海"
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          "sense": "series of marginal seas",
          "word": "Kiinan reunameret"
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          "sense": "series of marginal seas",
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          "word": "mer de Chine"
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        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "series of marginal seas",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "Mar de China"
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        "China Seas"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "series of marginal seas",
      "word": "中國海"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Zhōngguóhǎi",
      "sense": "series of marginal seas",
      "word": "中国海"
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