Volunteers dynamited some land in China (9)
I believe the answer is:
tableware
'china' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'volunteers dynamited some land in' is the wordplay.
'volunteers' becomes 'TA' (abbreviation for Territorial Army).
'dynamited' becomes 'beware' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'some' says to take the initial letters.
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
The first letter of 'land' is 'l'.
'beware' placed around 'l' is 'bleware'.
'ta'+'bleware'='TABLEWARE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tableware that I've seen before include "knives, etc" , "Bowls, for example" , "Crockery, cutlery, etc." , "Dinner service" .)