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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Cultivating and Exploiting a “Primitive” Island: From Hainans Early History into the Twentieth Century
An Outsider’s Story
Geography and Social Ecology
Han-Li Relations on Hainan
Transportation, Communication, Isolation
Chapter 2 Political Prospects in the Early Republic: Revolution, Warlords, and Diaspora, 19121926
Isolation in a Disintegrating National Polity
Lin Wenying and Hainan’s Diaspora from the Qing to the Early Republic
Hainan’s Anti-Imperialism and Inward Turn
Hainan for Sale
Rebel Origins of Hainan’s Feng Baiju
Chapter 3 From Globetrotters to Guerrillas: Hainan’s Early Communists
The Case of Li Shuoxun
Foundations of the Local Party
The Coconut Stockades and Fast-Changing Fortunes
Chapter 4 An Outrage of Little Consequence: The Japanese Invasion and Occupation of Hainan
An Uneasy United Front
Yunlong Reorganization
“War Shadows”
Collaboration on Hainan
Brutality
Gallery of Photographs
Chapter 5 New Allies: The Baisha Uprising and the Li-Communist Alliance, 1943
The Li in China’s Transitional Period
Wang Guoxing
Uprising
Aftermath
Chapter 6 Holding Aloft Hainan’s Red Flag: Disobedience and Survival in the Civil War, 1946
Consolidation and the Civil War
Reconnecting with the Mainland
Loyal Disobedience
Chapter 7 Sharing Victory: The Communist Conquest of Hainan Island
Histories of Hainan
Hainan Welcomes the PLA, and the PRC Welcomes Hainan
In Feng We Trust
Ma Baishan and Hainan’s Tributary Revolution
Cold War Trophy
Battle Lost and Won
Chapter 8 Bringing Hainan to the Nation’s Heel: Anti-localism in the Early PRC
The “Little Hungarian Incident”
From Revolution to Rule on Hainan
Land Reform, from Cultivation to Uprooting
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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