Introduction Hainan

"When time and opportunity meet with ability, they give birth to a once-in-a-lifetime chance that must be taken. I guess this is what happened to us when we met in China. In different groupings, we have already achieved dozens of photography journeys to Hainan, and the accumulated material has boosted up our enthusiasm. This gave us the idea of accomplishing a progress report in the form of a printed publication. For this opportunity we owe a deep gratitude to our friends in every coastal Hainan village that we have visited"--Back cover.