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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Cantonese 韶關／韶关 (siu4 gwaan1).
Proper noun
Shiukwan
- (dated) Synonym of Shaoguan: the Cantonese-derived name.
1938 August 31, “On Chinese Front”, in The Bombay Chronicle, page 1:Eight out of twelve Japanese planes were shot down when nineteen Chinese planes intercepted and surprised them at Namhung, ninety miles from Canton according to a Chinese communique. Eighteen other Japanese planes dropped sixty bombs on Shiukwan causing heavy casualties.—Reuter.
1946, Richard P. Dobson, “Kwangtung”, in China Cycle, London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., →OCLC, pages 46-47:The country as I saw it from the train was magnificently green, and after Shiukwan it became seriously mountainous, so that the brave new railway wound precariously up the river-banks. At Pingshek, fourteen hours by train from Canton, I was only a few miles from Hunan.
1959 January 14 [1959 January 14], “Commune Members' Income Raised”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 9, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Canton and Peking, NCNA, →OCLC, Communist China: National Affairs, page BBB 5:The Changshih people's commune near Shiukwan in northern Kwangtung has within a few months brought the living standards of the average household beyond that of former well-to-do peasants.
1964, Shu-fan Li, Hong Kong Surgeon, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 188:All the intelligentsia, artisans, and officials from Canton seemed to be at Shiukwan. Even some of the bigger Canton schools had moved there, staff and students en masse.
Bidding farewell to Shiukwan after a twenty-four-hour stay, we proceeded by train to Hengyang, in Hunan Province, where after remaining overnight we transferred to another train for Kweilin, Kwangsi Province.
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