Xiaoyi

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

Xiaoyi

1. 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, 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, →OCLC, →OL, 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.