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| Mazu (妈祖), goddess of the sea |
Xiamen. One of China’s lovelier coastal towns. From my 2014 visit.
I first visited Xiamen in the 1970s. We were looking at sailing a boat out of a boatyard there, for delivery down to Hong Kong. The folks involved decided not to go ahead. Oh well.... Would've been a fun trip.
I always liked Xiamen. Charming.
By the way, it was one of Deng Xiaoping's first Special Economic Zones. His experiment with "Socialism with Chinese characteristics". Aka, capitalism. Well, sort of. In any case, not socialism.
