Zhongshan Rd by night
Xiamen (Mandarin pronunciation: [?jâm??n]), also known as Amoy (English: /??m??/), is a coastal city in southeastern China. It is administered as a sub-provincial city under Fujian province in the People's Republic of China. It looks out to the Taiwan Strait and borders Quanzhou to the north and Zhangzhou to the south. Xiamen and the surrounding countryside are famous for being an ancestral home to overseas Chinese. It became one of China's earliest Special Economic Zones in the 1980s. Xiamen covers an area of 1 565 km² with a total population of 2.5 million. It has been ranked as China's second 'most suitable city for living'.
During the early Jin Dynasty, the place was made Tong'an District (???) in 282, a sub-entity of Jin'an Prefecture (???). During the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD), the city was known as a sustainable international seaport, and the Chinese scientist and statesman Shen Kuo (1031–1095) spent some of his youth there while his father was a local bureaucrat on the government staff. In 1387, the Ming Dynasty used the place as base against pirates, and was part of Quanzhou. Koxinga, stationed here in 1650, named it Siming Island (???), or "Remembering the Ming", but the city was renamed by the Manchus in 1680 to Xiamen Subprefecture. The name "Siming" was changed back after the 1912 Xinhai Revolution and the settlement was made a county. Later it reverted to the name Xiamen City. In 1949, Xiamen became a provincial city (???), then was upgraded to a vice-province-class city (????), or a municipality. It was made a Special Economic Zone in 1980.
Xiamen was the port of trade first used by Europeans (mainly the Portuguese) in 1541. It was China's main port in the nineteenth century for exporting tea. As a result, Hokkien (also known as the Amoy dialect) had a major influence on how Chinese terminology was translated into English and other European languages. For example, the words "Amoy", "tea" (?; tê), "cumshaw" (??; kám-sia), and "Pekoe" (??; pe? h-hô), kowtow (??; khàu-thâu), and possibly Japan (Ji? t-pún) and "ketchup" (??; kiô-chap) originated from the Hokkien. During the First Opium War between Britain and China, the British captured the city in the Battle of Amoy on 26 August 1841. Xiamen was one of the five Chinese treaty ports opened by the Treaty of Nanking (1842) at the end of the war. As a result, it was an early entry point for Protestant missions in China. In 1999, the largest corruption scandal in China's history was uncovered, implicating up to 200 government officials. Lai Changxing is alleged to have run an enormous smuggling operation, which financed the city's football team, film studios, largest construction project, and a vast brothel rented to him by the local Public Security Bureau. According to Time, "locals used to joke that Xiamen should change its name to Yuanhua, the name of Lai's company." They subsequently claimed that potential investors were discouraged by the taint of corruption.
Xiamen's primary economic activities include fishing, shipbuilding, food processing, tanning, textiles, machine tool manufacturing, chemical industries, telecommunications, and financial services. The city benefits particularly from investment capital from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.
Xiamen was recently voted China's cleanest city, and has many attractions for the tourist. Xiamen and its surrounding countryside provides spectacular scenery and pleasant tree-lined beaches. Gulangyu, also known as Piano Island, is a popular, peaceful weekend getaway with amazing views of the city and features many Victorian-era style European edifices. Xiamen's Botanical Garden is a nature lover's paradise. The Buddhist Nanputuo Temple, dating back to the Tang Dynasty, is a national treasure. Xiamen is also famous for its history as a frontline during the war with Kinmen (also known as Jinmen or Quemoy) 50 years ago. One attraction for tourists is to view Kinmen island, a few kilometres away and under Taiwanese control, from Xiamen island.
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iGrow: a helmet that cures baldness (and plays music)
The iGrow helmet uses low-level laser therapy to stimulate hair growth at home - but is it too good to be true?
Sometimes a gadget comes along that leaves you baffled at how such a thing can actually exist. They are either incredibly good, or shockingly bad.
It’s hard to know which category iGrow fits into, since it looks like something that would be laughed out of the Dragon’s Den studio, yet promises boldly to solve a problem that blights the lives of millions of men.
iGrow is pitched as a long term solution to male pattern baldness, and is “an FDA-approved device that uses low level laser therapy (LLLT) to stimulate hair follicles”.
Simply place it your head, switch it on via the attached (ultra low-tech) remote, let the little red lights (a combination of red laser and LED light diodes) inside the helmet painlessly do their thing, and after 20 minutes’ use every other day for about four months, you can expect to see an increase in hair growth of up to 40 per cent, according to a study published by the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery .
What’s troubling is that iGrow looks like it was put together in the Doctor Who props department in the late ‘80s using an old bike helmet, some Christmas tree lights, a can of silver paint and some cheap on-ear headphones (which are presumably to drown out the sound of other people’s laughter when they clock what you’re wearing).
Xiamen, China
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Foreign visitors, who were not permitted on the island until 1980, are now welcomed and delighted by the scenic beauty and historical treasures of Xiamen. Visit the famous Jimei Academic Village located in the northern section of the island. Known as the home of Tan Kah Kee, the museum features bronze statues and pottery from the Ming and Qing dynasties. Three miles east of the village, on the slopes of Wulao Mountain, is the South Putuo Temple, dating back 1,000 years.
Xiamen
Xiamen ( Mandarin pronunciation: [?jam??n] ), also historically known as Amoy / ? ? m ?? /. [ 1 ] POJ Hokkien: ??-mui?; E-mn? g, is a major city on the southeast (Taiwan Strait ) coast of the People's Republic of China. It is administered as a sub-provincial city of Fujian province, [ 2 ] with an area of 1,699.39 square kilometres (656.14 sq mi) and population of 3,531,347 at the 2010 Census. [ 3 ] The city's urban area includes the old urban island area and covers all six districts of Xiamen (Huli. Siming. Jimei. Tong'an. Haicang and recently Xiang'an ), and has a total urban population of 1,861,289. [ 4 ] It also borders Quanzhou to the north and Zhangzhou making this a unique built up area of more than five million people. The Jinmen (Kinmen) Islands administered by the Republic of China (Taiwan) are less than 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away.
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City name [ edit ]
The area where Xiamen now exists was known as Tong'an (Chinese. ?? ; Pe? h-oe-ji. Tang-Oa? ) in some Han Dynasty records, though the area was not significantly settled by Han Chinese until several centuries later. Xiamen Island itself was known as Jiahe-Yu (Chinese. ??? ; Pe? h-oe-ji. Ka-ho-su ) up until Ming Dynasty General Zhou Dexing built the "Xiamen Castle" on the island in 1387 AD to defend against Japanese pirates. [ 7 ]
History [ edit ]
During the early Jin Dynasty. the place was made Tong'an County ( ??? ) in 282. During the Song Dynasty (960–1279 AD), the city was a seaport open to foreign trade. The Chinese scientist and statesman Shen Kuo (1031–1095) spent some of his youth there while his father was a local bureaucrat on the government staff.
1885 illustration of Xiamen from Gulangyu by Edwin Joshua Dukes in Along River and Road in Fuh-kien, China .
In 1387, the Ming Dynasty built a fort in Xiamen, then part of Quanzhou, to guard against pirates. After the Manchu Qing Dynasty overthrew the Ming in 1644, Ming loyalist Koxinga. used Xiamen as a base to launch counterattacks against the invading Manchus from 1650 to 1660. [ 8 ] In 1656, he named Xiamen Island, Siming ( ??? ), or "Remembering the Ming ". In 1661, Koxinga drove the Dutch from Taiwan and moved his operations there. The Manchus renamed the island Xiamen. The city was renamed by the Manchus in 1680 to Xiamen Subprefecture. The name "Siming" was changed back after the 1912 Xinhai Revolution overthrew the Qing Dynasty and the settlement was made a county. Later it reverted to the name Xiamen City. In 1949, Xiamen became a provincially administered city ( ??? ), then was upgraded to a vice-province-class city ( ???? ), or a municipality. Today, Siming is the name of main city district of downtown Xiamen.
During the First Opium War between Britain and China, the British captured the city in the Battle of Amoy on 26 August 1841. Xiamen was one of the five Chinese treaty ports opened by the Treaty of Nanking (1842) at the end of the war. As a result, it was an early entry point for Protestant missions in China. European settlements were concentrated on the islet of Gulangyu off the main island of Xiamen. Today, Gulangyu is known for colonial architecture and the tradition of piano-playing and organized sports.
iGrow: a helmet that cures baldness (and plays music)
The iGrow helmet uses low-level laser therapy to stimulate hair growth at home - but is it too good to be true?
Sometimes a gadget comes along that leaves you baffled at how such a thing can actually exist. They are either incredibly good, or shockingly bad.
It’s hard to know which category iGrow fits into, since it looks like something that would be laughed out of the Dragon’s Den studio, yet promises boldly to solve a problem that blights the lives of millions of men.
iGrow is pitched as a long term solution to male pattern baldness, and is “an FDA-approved device that uses low level laser therapy (LLLT) to stimulate hair follicles”.
Simply place it your head, switch it on via the attached (ultra low-tech) remote, let the little red lights (a combination of red laser and LED light diodes) inside the helmet painlessly do their thing, and after 20 minutes’ use every other day for about four months, you can expect to see an increase in hair growth of up to 40 per cent, according to a study published by the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery .
What’s troubling is that iGrow looks like it was put together in the Doctor Who props department in the late ‘80s using an old bike helmet, some Christmas tree lights, a can of silver paint and some cheap on-ear headphones (which are presumably to drown out the sound of other people’s laughter when they clock what you’re wearing).
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