'And what the hell, you asked, is all this military activity doing on this deserted Chinese island?'

The name comes from Horai, a Chinese island important in Japanese mythology.

The Chinese offshore islands and Vietnam proved to be the new crisis areas in the Far East.

Xavier never reached the mainland, dying after only a year on the Chinese island of Shangchuan.

Xavier, however, died the same year on the Chinese island of Shangchuan, without having reached the mainland.

Rain fell on the Chinese islands.

The waterfront drive parallels the shore of a Chinese island, and boats headed to China pass through the narrow waterway.

Of the 320 islands along this river, the agreement recognizes 167 Russian islands and 153 Chinese islands.

They operate from a bare apartment on a Chinese island.

He advised a military and naval action involving seizure of one or more Chinese islands for British commerce.