Word: hainan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months after he had conquered the South China mainland, Red General Lin Piao was ready for the overwater jump to Hainan. Unlike Nationalist China's other island, Formosa, which lies 100 deep-water miles from the Red-held coast, Hainan has only a narrow channel (15 miles) separating it from the continental shore. Behind a thin shield of gunboats and planes, Nationalist General Hsueh Yueh had tried to pull together Hainan's army of 160,000, mostly remnants of the south China retreat...
...popped jubilantly. Next day the celebration fizzled. The Communists had won again. On the sixth day after making their beachhead, the men of Lin Piao's Communist Fourth Field Army marched triumphantly into Hoihow. With what remained of his 160,000 defenders, Hsueh Yueh fell back hopelessly to Hainan's south coast...
Along South China's invasion coast, facing the Nationalist islands of Formosa and Hainan, Communist generals are drilling a million men, assembling thousands of junks and sampans for amphibious assault. How firmly will Nationalist China hold out in her island remnants? Last week TIME Correspondent Wilson Fielder surveyed Formosa's defenses. His report...
...rather amused by the footnote to your story of Hainan Island [TIME, Jan. 30]. It states, inter alia, that "Premier Wang An-shih's statism [1069-76] reduced China to economic and political chaos." This reminds me of an episode which, I think, may be worth mentioning...
...Most celebrated was Su Tung Po (1036-1101), who was exiled for three years to Hainan. Poet, painter, engineer and herbalist, Su fought against the state socialism of Premier Wang An-shih, who favored government monopoly of retail and wholesale trade, government control of transport (horses) and credit (loans to farmers). After eight years, Wang's statism reduced China to economic and political chaos...