Hsiao-kan

English thumb|Map including HSIAO-KAN (Defense Mapping Agency DMA, 1972) Etymology From the en cmn-wadegiles - romanization of the en cmn 孝感 Hsiao⁴-kan³. Proper noun 1 1 en Xiaogan. en 1910s William Robson Griffith John of Hankow Bright Biographies Series https://archive.org/details/cu31924010758252/ w:Pickering & Inglis 10635976 189 https://archive.org/details/cu31924010758252/page/n199/ He could not be restrained from again visiting the country, and in 1908, at the period of the Chines New Year, accompanied by his daughter and Mr. Nelson Bitton, he set out on what was to prove the last missionary journey of his travel-filled life. The trip was to Hsiao-kan, the scene of many an early disappointment and triumph. Now the line of railway from Hankow to Peking passes within a few miles of Hsiao-kan City, and the trip was very different one from the old, uncomfortable journeys. Arrived at Hsiao-kan the veteran worker could scarcely rest until he had seen the lepers, and admired the chapel which had just been erected for their Christian worship. In the afternoon a visit was paid to the house which had first sheltered the missionary in Hsiao-kan, and where he had met with the few believers who had been gathered into the Church by the earnest efforts of Mr. Wei. en 1956 Chien-nung Li The Political History of China 1840-1928 https://archive.org/details/politicalhistory0000unse_n8j3/ w:D. Van Nostrand Company 56-12095 419920 254 https://archive.org/details/politicalhistory0000unse_n8j3/page/254/ On November 11 while Yuan Shikai Yüan was with the army at Hsiao-kan, he received the imperial decrees appointing him premier of the cabinet, but he declined the offer. en 1978 w:Mark Elvin Philip Abrams; w:E. A. Wrigley Chinese Cities since the Sung Dynasty Towns in Societies https://archive.org/details/townsinsocieties0000abra/ w:Cambridge University Press 0 521 21826 8 77-82481 803232749 86–87 https://archive.org/details/townsinsocieties0000abra/page/86/ A late Ming gazetteer for Hsiao-kan county in Hupeh province observed, after listing abuses in the assessment and exaction of various levies, that 'people living in the villages have to provide twice as much as those who live in towns, and those in economically distressed circumstances provide twice as much again as the [ordinary] countryfolk'. Translations Xiaogan Further reading en 1952 Siaokan or Hsiao-kan Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1760 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1760/ 3