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

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