Xiamen is an island city with a rich and dramatic history,replete with pirates,rebel leaders,and European merchants.Now linked to mainland Fujian by a causeway,Xiamen retains a strong international flavor.Known in the West as Amoy,Xiamen has a long history as a port city,and later became a center of British trade in the 19th century.Their foreign settlements,later taken over by Japanese invaders at the start of World War II,were established on the nearby small Gulangyu Island.Many of the old treaty-port and colonial buildings in Western styles survive.Xiamen was declared one of China’s first Special Economic Zones in the early 1980’s,taking advantage of the city’s heritage as a trading center and the proximity to Taiwan.Today Xiamen is one of China’s most attractive and best-maintained resort cities.Xiamen was founded in 1394 at the beginning of the Ming dynasty as a center of defense against coastal pirates.Its prosperity was due to its deepwater sheltered harbor,that supplanted nearby Quanzhou,the port that had been the center of the maritime trade with the Indies.
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厦门是一个富有戏剧性的历史上的一个岛的城市,充满了海盗,叛军领导人和欧洲商人。福建大陆现在的堤道相连,厦门依然拥有强大的国际风味。在西方被称为厦门,厦门是一个历史悠久的港口城市,和后来在第十九世纪英国的贸易中心。他们的租界,后来被日本侵略者在第二次世界大战的开始,是建立在附近的小屿。在西方风格的旧条约口岸和殖民建筑许多生存。厦门被宣布为一个中国的第一个经济特区在1980年代初,以利用城市的遗产作为一个贸易中心,邻近台湾。今天的厦门是中国最具吸引力和维护最好的度假城市。厦门建于1394明初为中心向沿海海盗防线。它的繁荣是由于它的深水避风的港湾,这取代了附近的泉州,已与Indies的海上贸易的中心港口。
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