Meaning of Shangjao | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

Examples

“And by the time Pearl Harbor came he had so incurred the wrath of the Japanese that the very first day of official war with America they sent a detachment to arrest John Birch. But he escaped, and fled to Shangjao in Kiangsi Province.[...] In January there arrived at Shangjao, after a precarious journey from Shanghai through occupied territory, a baptized native who brought a message from missionaries stranded in that city.”

“Wild Goose Pond is in Kiangsi province near the modern town of Shangjao and was the site of a famous Neo-Confucian academy as well as several important Zen monasteries.”

“In April 1942, a Chinese peasant in Shangjao took him to a sampan where Lt. Col. James (Jimmie) Doolittle and his crew were hiding. Doolittle had led the first U.S. bombing raid on Japan on April 18.”

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