Xiaogan

alternative Siaokan · alternative Hsiao-kan · alternative Hsiaokan

1. A prefecture-level city of Hubei, in central China.

   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.

   [1938 March 20, Agnes Moncrieff, “Hankow and the Godown, January-March 1938”, in Barbara Francis, editor, You Do Not travel in China at the Full Moon: Agnes Moncrieff's Letters from China, 1930-1945, Victoria University Press, published 2017, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 114

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   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.

   2014 December 1, Edward Wong, “Teachers’ Strikes Spread Across Northeast China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2014, Asia Pacific