The fieldwork areas include (1) the pseudonymous village of Bao-an, in Tainan County and its adjacent market town of Hsikang, home of a large triennial regional chiao festival that includes Bao-an and most villages around it;[...] In 1965 I settled into the comparatively wealthy village of Bao-an, just north of Tainan City.[...]An astonishing proportion of village people had replaced their old houses with new ones built of better materials, often two stories high. And the “agricultural’’ township of Hsikang now boasted enough factories to sponsor a two-room exposition of Hsikang manufactured goods.
2001 January, Investigation Report: A Serious Incident Involving a China Airlines B-18503, A300-600R Aircraft , while flying from Chiang Kai Shek International Airport to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, the pilot became incapacitated during flight.[2], Aviation Safety Council, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 8:
After passing over Hsikang, Tainan, the aircraft flew southward along A577.
2015 June 5, Chi-Yan (黃麒晏) Huang, “西港香開基十三庄之打鐵庄池府千歲研究 [A Study on Lord Chifu of Datie Village in The 13 Zhuang Area of Hsikang Koah-hiu]”, in National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan"103NTNT0642001"., archived from "103NTNT0642001". the original on 25 September 2002:
The research project presented with the social and cultural impacts of a series of transformations and disasters that occurred in the area situated in the east of the Hsikang district in Tainan, still remembered today as the “13 zhuang area”. In 1784, this grouping of villages initiated the performance of the famous religious celebration now called Hsikang koah-hiu occurring ever since every three years, and which was classified in 2009 as a national intangible cultural heritage element.
