
Xiamen is a port city on China’s southeast coast, across a strait from Taiwan. It encompasses 2 main islands and a region on the mainland. Formerly known as Amoy, it was a foreign concession from 1903 to World War II. Many Europeans and Japanese lived on Gulangyu, today a vehicle-free island with beaches and meandering streets lined with old colonial villas.
厦门是来自台湾的港口城市对中国的东南沿海,横跨两岸。它包括2个主岛和大陆上的一个区域。原名淘,这是一个租界,从1903年到第二次世界大战。许多欧洲人和日本人住在鼓浪屿,今天无车的岛屿,海滩和蜿蜒的街道两旁古老的殖民地别墅。