In 1871, the Great Northern Telegraph Company began operations on Kulangsu’s Tianwei Road. It laid the telegraph service’s submarine cables connecting…
The American government obtained the land for this sweeping brick property, near the [San Qiu Tian tourist ferry port], after negotiations…
Continue Reading: Former United States Consulate (Mei Guo Ling Shi Guan Jiu Zhi 美国领事馆旧址)
Hai Tian Tang Gou Mansion was built by Philippine Chinese Huang Xiuliang and Huang Nianyi between 1920 and 1930. The mansion…
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…
Union Church, Kulangsu’s earliest church, was built in 1863. The church was named as “The International Church”in the beginning and…
As more and more Christians moved to Kulangsu in the 1920s, Xiamen Church, New Street Church and Bamboo Church cooperated…
Kulangsu is an island about 600 meters from southwestern coast of Xiamen, Fujian. Slightly long and narrow, the 1.88-square-kilometer Kulangsu…
Continue Reading: Kulangsu Island: a tropical beach paradise beating to the waves of its own drummer
In 1945, the National Government of the Republic of China took back Kulangsu. Then, the multicultural prosperity was resumed to…