Shōkan

"Shōkan" City of the State of Guangdong
Details
Population	4.95 M
State GDP	$ 1.818 B
GDP/C	$ 366
Culture	Hakka

In-Game Description

Before the Qing dynasty, Shaoguan was Shaozhou; the suffix Guan, "pass", it would earn from passing-by merchants accustomed to its myriad taxes. Being Guangdong's northernmost major city, as well as housing portions of the Guangzhou-Hankou Railway starting 1916, only added to its significance to trade between the southern Chinese ports and the larger Chinese cities to the north.\n\nThe Shōkan of today, however, is a pass in a more literal sense - on the border, along the rail lines, now lies a checkpoint and customs station where there used to be none, a silent yet living testament to separations, arbitrary decisions, and the machinations of fate.