Mao’s China · BATTLE SITE ·
Battle of Hainan Island (1950)
On the Mao’s China map as “The Hainan landings”
16 Apr–1 May 1950 — The Fourth Field Army crosses the Qiongzhou Strait in wooden sailing junks and, joined by Communist guerrillas who had held the island’s mountains since the late 1920s, takes Hainan in a fortnight. It is the last large Nationalist territory off the southern coast to fall.
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- Mao’s consolidation and land reform (chapter 1 of Mao’s China)
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- The People’s Republic under Mao, 1949–1976
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