Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Shaoguan.
On 16 June Chin downed a Mitsubishi Ki-21 as well as damaging another bomber over Shaokuan, near Canton, while Louie and a Chinese Gladiator pilot teamed up to bring down a third.
2000, Jon Guttman, “Under Foreign Management 1939-1942”, in Fighting Firsts: Fighter Aircraft Combat Debuts from 1914-1944, Cassell, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1452 more examples
Even in the summer of 1926, while the Canton government strained to transport growing numbers of troops north to Shaokuan on the Hunan border, a strike on the line from Canton north to Shaokuan slowed troop movement for two weeks.
1976, Donald A. Jordan, The Northern Expedition: China's National Revolution of 1926-1928, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 52A clandestine organization named the "United Front against Persecution" emerged at the same time on the mainland. With its headquarters in Shanghai and a branch in Shaokuan, Kwangtung, its members have been undermining communications and putting up anti-Communist slogans throughout the mainland.
1978 January 1, “Anti-Red activities on mainland reported”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIX, number 1, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3
Origin
From Mandarin 韶關／韶关 (Sháoguān) Wade–Giles romanization: Shao²-kuan¹.
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