China's Lonely Revolution

Jeremy A. Murray is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, San Bernardino.

"This is an ambitious work … The strength of this book is the skillful tracing of the development of the party in relation to the broader currents shaping the political environment of these years such as the united front, the Japanese invasion, or the tensions with the central party authorities … the book is an impressively researched study that provides many valuable insights that hopefully will stimulate more work on this little-known part of the story of the Communist revolution in China." — Pacific Affairs

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Cultivating and Exploiting a "Primitive" Island: From Hainan’s Early History into the Twentieth Century 2. Political Prospects in the Early Republic: Revolution, Warlords, and Diaspora, 1912–1926 3. From Globetrotters to Guerrillas: Hainan’s Early Communists 57 4. An Outrage of Little Consequence: The Japanese Invasion and Occupation of Hainan gallery of photographs 5. New Allies: The Baisha Uprising and the Li-Communist Alliance, 1943 6. Holding Aloft Hainan’s Red Flag: Disobedience and Survival in the Civil War, 1946 7. Sharing Victory: The Communist Conquest of Hainan Island 8. Bringing Hainan to the Nation’s Heel: Anti-localism in the Early PRC Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index