Walking Around Xiamen (China)

Xiamen (厦门), also known by its Hokkien pronunciation as Amoy, is a city in southeastern Fujian province. Xiamen Island possessed a natural harbor in Yundang Bay, but Fujian’s international trade was long restricted to Quanzhou or to Guangzhou in Guangdong. Due to the siltification of Quanzhou’s harbor, the British insisted that Xiamen be opened to foreign trade in the treaty that ended the First Opium War in 1842. European settlement in the port was concentrated on Gulangyu Island off Xiamen proper; it re