The Songyue Temple Pagoda is a 15-storey dense-eave brick pagoda built in the Northern Wei Dynasty. It is located at...
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Tong'an is Xiamen's remotest area-1/2 hour north of Jimei-but well worth a tour. For most of the past 1000 years，Tong'an，not...
Jimei-China's“College Town” Jimei Imagine a sleepy fishing hamlet transformed into a college town with over a dozen schools and over...
Xiamen has 139 protected cultural and historical sites，18 historical temples and churches，and dozens of museums. Xiamen even has 533 protected...
Good Sports Chinese ruffled feathers by claiming they'd invented golf and soccer（a claim even the FIFA lent credence to）.But most...
Besides being one of Fujian's major temples，Nanpituo Temple also backs on to a very attractive and path-riddled mountain called Five...
City HalIl（Foxtail Mn.im back） Hawei Shan is a continuation of Xianyue Mn. on the western side of the Haicang Bridge...
Xianyue Mountain is one of Xidmen's larger range of hills，being a barrier between downtown and the Huli District.It offers a...
Who has not wondered at the bare hills of Amoy，at the first glimpse he obtains on entering the harbor，and，seeing the...
Since the 18th century，Western naturalists have converged upon Fujian Province toexplore a biological diversity that probably rivals Eden itself.Fujian is...
Our“Garden Island”has hundreds of city，district and community gardens.My favorites include the Botanical Garden，Yundang Lake（the city's cultural center）the 3lkm.Island Ring Road...
A leisurely two hour stroll along Gulangyu's paved 4 km. ring road allows you to enjoy the beach on one...
Chinese New Year，2011，Xiamen was mainland China's top tourist spot，and Amoy's crown jewel is the 1.77 km2 Gulangyu Islet（“Drum Wave Islet"）.In...
Collections of 19th and early 20th century photos of Xidmen often include photos of magnificent stone memorial arches built over...
“Boredom is always counter-revolutionary.Always." Guy Debord，French philosopher 1988-Escape from Xiamen Xidmen was so boring in the early 1990s that we...
Ancient Period Around 500,000 years ago, there was human existence in Beijing area and they were named"Peking Man." Around 20,000...
As Dunhuang documents are wide in range and scope and are written in many languages, some are lost and some...
It can be known from what is stated above that from the moment they were discovered, the Dunhuang documents had...
From Humiliation to Glory:Development of Dunhuang Studies After the discovery of the Dunhuang documents，the overwhelming ma jority was taken away...
Since the discovery of the Library Cave in 1900, the British, French, Russian, Japanese and other foreign "explorers"and expeditions rushed...