Xiaoyi

See also: xiàoyì

English

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 孝義／孝义 (Xiàoyì).

Xiaoyi

A county-level city in Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
- [1936 March 14, “Shansi Troops Take Offensive Against Reds on All Fronts”, in The China Weekly Review‎, volume 76, number 2, OCLC 52770868, page 49, column 2:
  After the re-capture of Fenyang and Shanchuantseng by the Government troops in Shansi Province, the Communists have retreated to Hsiaoyi. Under the personal direction of the Communist leader, Mao Tze-tung, the Communists are engaged in a serious fight with the Shansi troops near Hsiaoyi, reported Shun Pao March 6.]
- 2010, Kolya Abramsky, editor, Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-petrol World‎, AK Press, →ISBN, LCCN 2009933022, OCLC 699916858, OL 25160959M, page 418:
  Investigations into the gas explosions at the Mengnanzhuang coal mine in Xiaoyi city, Shanxi province, which killed seventy-two miners on 22 March 2003; at the Baixing mine in Jixi city, Heilongjiang province, which killed thirty-seven miners on 23 February 2004; and at the Xiangyuangou mine in Jiaocheng county, Shanxi province, which killed twenty-nine miners on 9 March 2005, revealed four common denominators.

county-level city