From my trip in 2104. Checking out the pre-wedding photo shoot.
I was first in Xiamen in 1976 when it was named the first of China’s Special Economic Zones.
It was just a fishing village. An interesting one. The island just off the mainland part of the city, was and remains car free. All you heard wandering around the cobbled streets was the sound of music and the light burble of humans, babes and greys.
Xiamen had been a place of Portuguese colonials. Less benignly of Muslim conquerors. Today it’s pretty. Compared, that is, to other Chinese cities.
