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Ep. 290 | The History of Hainan (Part 1)

The China History Podcast

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Hinon Island - What Is Hinon?

Recent discoveries have confirmed that hinon separated off from vitnam, which is to its west. Hinan was inotensa millions of years ago, connected to the northern viet nam coast. The tung character simply means a fine jade at least, that's the sort of text book definition that you get when you look it up in most chinese dictionaries. And so there's alsotis possible idea that that people were thinking of cliffs in the sense of ano falling off the edge of the earth.

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