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The Grand Tour II-4: Mansion Gate…. Amoy / Xiamen (廈門)
View of Gulangyu Island and the Xiamen Skyline from the Sunlight Rock (日光岩) – the highest point on Gulangyu Island. Xiamen was a very familiar city. I felt a 親切感– a strong sense of warmth and belonging...
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Gulangyu Island (鼓浪嶼), Xiamen – a perfectly preserved piece of European...
The Lin Family Mansion (林氏俯 － 1915), today a boutique hotel. It is also known as the Octagonal Building (八角樓)。 When it comes to poster-boys for colonial architecture in Mainland China, two places come...
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Wandering the Streets of the Old Town, Amoy (閒遊老廈門)
Historic Shophouse Architecture in the streets of Old Amoy/Xiamen – cousins of those in Singapore. Across the narrow straits from Gulangyu Island sits Old Amoy – the Chinese settlement, and the...
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Tan Kah Kee’s Legacy: Xiamen University and the Lujiang Hotel
Xiamen University Main Administrative Block, with statue of Tan Kah Kee in front. Amoy’s links to Singapore (and the Nanyang 南洋 Region) extend beyond cultural ties of the Hokkien peoples that populate...
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