Citations:Hainan

English citations of Hainan

Province of China

• 1942 March 20, John McVea, “Madame Chiang Kai-Shek”, in The Gateway‎^[1], volume XXXII, number 29, Edmonton, Alberta, page 5:

  These were a business family, in Hainan province, who, along with other South China merchants, had interests in America, where the multitude of little shops and businesses owned by Chinese had assumed the appearance of a department store chain, representing the invested outlay of controlling families in the Orient.

• 2022 May 9, “China cargo craft docks with space station ahead of new crew”, in AP News‎^[2], archived from the original on 10 May 2022:

  The Tianzhou-4 spacecraft was slung into space atop a Long March-7 Y5 rocket at 1:56 a.m. from the Wenchang Launch Base in the southern island province of Hainan. State media said it docked with the station about seven hours later.

Island in the South China Sea

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• 1663, The Voyages and Adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto‎^[3], page 285:

  There is moreover in the woods marvelous ſtore of Braſil and Ebony, wherewith an hundred Juncks are every year laden to be tranſported to China, Hainan, the Lequios, Camboya and Camphaa ;

• 1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China‎^[4], London: John Macock, page 270:

  Near to the Iſland Hainan are caught Whales,after the ſame manner as the Hollanders and Engliſh in the North about Greenland, whereof they make Oyl which ſerves for ſeveral uſes.

• 1706, Dionysius Kao, A Short Description of the Vaſt Empire of China‎^[5], London, page 163:

  In China the quantity of Ships is innumerable, as the Sand of the Sea : Thoſe which carry Corn only to Peking amounting to 9999 (*) large Ships, ſufficient to carry above thirty or forty thouſand weight : and their paſſage from Nanking to Peking, being ſeven or eight hundred (†) (Italian) Miles, mostly through Artificial Channels, takes up full ſix Months time.
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  (†)That our Author muſt here be underſtood to intend Italian Miles is beyond all question : For the extent of the whole Empire from the moſt remote part of it the Iſland of Hainan, to that part of it which borders on the Muſcovian Empire, doth not contain about 8 or 900 Leagues or Hours ; nor is the fartheſt part of Nanking, where the River falls into the Sea, above 250 French or common Dutch Miles ; which according to our Author's account make 7 or 800 (Italian) Miles, which word I have therefore ventured to inſert in a Parentheſis.

• [1738, “PROVINCE XII. QUANG-TONG.”, in A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet‎^[6], volume I, London, translation of original by J. B. du Halde, →OCLC, page 109:

  On the Coaſts and in a Lake of the Iſland Hay-nan they catch Crabs, which, as they affirm, as ſoon as they are taken out of the Water, become as hard as Flints ; and prove, as they ſay, a good Remedy againſt burning Fevers.]

• 1835, “BANG-KOK”, in The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge‎^[7], volume III, →OCLC, page 372, column 2:

  The most active commerce is carried on with the ports of the Chinese empire, especially with Shanghae and the island of Hainan ; but the trade between Singapore and other places of the neighbourhood is rapidly increasing.

• 1879 [1877 March 10], Anna Brassey, “Canton and Macao to Singapore”, in A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam': Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months‎^[8], 6th edition, Toronto: Rose-Belford Publishing, →OCLC, pages 405–406:

  A fine day, with a light fair breeze. Passed the island of Hainan, belonging to China, situated at the entrance of the Gulf of Tonquin, which, though very barren-looking, supports a population of 150,000.

• 1892, Report of the American Presbyterian Mission in Canton, China for the Year 1891‎^[9], Canton, page 48:

  Girls Day School Kiung-Chow, Hainan opened Feb. 25, 1891.

• 1972, Liu Wu-chi, Su Man-shu‎^[10], Twayne Publishers, page 64:

  As for Fletcher himself, his enthusiasm for Chinese art and poetry grew with the years. Later, while a consul at Hoihow (Hai-k'ou, a major seaport on Hainan Island), he published in Shanghai two volumes of translations: Gems of Chinese Verse (1918) and More Gems of Chinese Poetry (1919).

• 1983 March 20, “Hainan protest over Teng's economic plans”, in Free China Weekly‎^[11], volume XXIV, number 11, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:

  Several thousand retired servicemen on Hainan Island demonstrated against Teng Hsiao-ping's economic policies last month at the instigation of Hsu Shih-yu, deputy chairman of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Advisory Committee and a standing member of the party's Military Affairs Commission, according to an official report intercepted by the Republic of China's intelligence workers on the mainland.

• 2010, George W. Bush, Decision Points‎^[12], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 426:

  On April 1, 2001, an American surveillance plane known as an EP-3 collided with a Chinese aircraft and made an emergency landing on Hainan Island. The Chinese pilot ejected from the cockpit and died. Our twenty-four-person crew was held at a military barracks on the island and interrogated. The Iranian hostage crisis was at the forefront of my mind. This was not the way I wanted to start my relationship with China.

• 2022 July 24, “China launches second of three space station modules”, in France 24‎^[13], archived from the original on 24 July 2022:

  The uncrewed craft, named Wentian, was propelled by a Long March 5B rocket at 2:22 pm (0622 GMT) from the Wenchang launch centre on China's tropical island of Hainan.