Shiukwan

English Etymology Borrowed from en yue 韶關 siu4 gwaan1. Proper noun en dated en Shaoguan: the Cantonese-derived name. en https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.13184/page/6/mode/ 31 Aug 1938 The Bombay Chronicle On Chinese Front 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. en 1946 Richard P. Dobson Kwangtung China Cycle https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.81915/mode London Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1163428 46-47 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.81915/page/n57/ 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. en January 14, 1959 January 14, 1959 Commune Members' Income Raised Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts 9 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015082401152&seq=455 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Canton; Peking, NCNA 1541329 Communist China: National Affairs BBB 5 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015082401152&seq=565 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. en 1964 Shu-fan Li Hong Kong Surgeon https://archive.org/details/hongkongsurgeon0000lish/ New York E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 63-15783 1373123 5883944M 188 https://archive.org/details/hongkongsurgeon0000lish/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. en