Xiaogan
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Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 孝感 (Xiàogǎn).
Proper noun
Xiaogan
- A prefecture-level city in Hubei, in central China.
- , Victoria University Press, published 2017, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 114:
- When the planes do not come I am always consumed with curiosity as to where they do go. The urgent alarm means that they are within thirty miles of Hankow. I heard a rumour that they went to Siaokan north of Hankow on the railway. There is an air field there too.]
- 2014 December 1, Edward Wong, “Teachers’ Strikes Spread Across Northeast China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 1 December 2014, Asia Pacific:
- In early September, teachers at a high school in the city of Xiaogan, in Hubei Province, went on strike over what they called the government’s refusal to give them the proper status in the public employment system. The status helps determine details of their pension plans.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xiaogan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3501, column 3
- Xiaogan, Hsiao-kan, Hsiaokan, Siaokan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.