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South of the temple and past Xiamen University (founded in 1921 by a local who made good in Singapore) is the Huli Mountain Cannon Platform.
In 1921 the Germans placed their artillery here to defend the colonial port of Amoy, as Xiamen was known to Westerners.
Xiamen’s chief pleasure for any visitor is Gulangyu, a small island in the harbor that was once the home to foreign colonials.
A prosperous place owing to its close connections with overseas Chinese investors (many of whom emigrated from the area), Xiamen has wisely spared much of its downtown and harbor from the bulldozers of progress.
Throughout the 1990s, a vast syndicate that included prominent Communist party officials, members of the Chinese military, and business leaders, smuggled an estimated ten billion dollars worth of cars, oil, and high-tech hardware into China through the port of Xiamen.