In 1871, the Great Northern Telegraph Company began operations on Kulangsu’s Tianwei Road. It laid the telegraph service’s submarine cables connecting…
The former Japanese Consulate, built in 1879, is the only 19th century embassy building still intact upon Kulangsu. The Japanese…
The Kulangsu organ museum’s beautiful red dome is visible from across the bay in Xiamen. The museum, housed in the…
Continue Reading: Kulangsu Organ Museum (Eight Diagrams Mansion / Bagua Mansion) (Ba Gua Lou 八卦楼)
The Foreigners’ Football Field was built before 1878 and originally used as a lawn tennis court and cricket field. It…
The Yanwei Hill Time Cannon Emplacement was set up by Xiamen Customs toward the end of the nineteenth century. The…
Continue Reading: Yanwei Hill Time Cannon (Yan Wei Shan Sheng Tai Gong Yuan 燕尾山生态公园)
The Gulangyu Mixed Court, designed in was built by the English Presbyterian Mission in early Modernist style after permanently leased…
Continue Reading: Former Kulangsu Mixed Court (Hui Shen Gong Tang 会审公堂)
The Former Southern Fukien (Fujian) Christian Bookstore was founded in 1908 on Dadai Road on Kulangsu by Chinese and foreign…
Zhongde Taoist Temple was built before 1662, and originally located to the west of Kulangsu, where the west slope of…
Union Church, Kulangsu’s earliest church, was built in 1863. The church was named as “The International Church”in the beginning and…
There are four separate cemeteries spread out around a single rolling hill in Nei Cuo Ao. All of them are beautiful,…