Kulangsu - China

Back in 2017 China added 2 sites to the World Heritage List. Fortunately those were not that hard to get sites and I immediatly got cards from both of them, sent by sent by Wei. One of those cards was from Kulangsu, (also known as Gulangyu), an Historic International Settlement. 

Wei's card is the middle one and the other are officials. 

 

 CN-4135737, sent by Yaya.

Kulangsu is a tiny island located on the estuary of the Chiu-lung River, facing the city of Xiamen. With the opening of a commercial port at Xiamen in 1843, and the establishment of the island as an international settlement in 1903, this island off the southern coast of the Chinese empire suddenly became an important window for Sino-foreign exchanges

 

 Kulangsu is an exceptional example of the cultural fusion that emerged from these exchanges, which remain legible in its urban fabric. There is a mixture of different architectural styles including Traditional Southern Fujian Style, Western Classical Revival Style and Veranda Colonial Style. The most exceptional testimony of the fusion of various stylistic influences is a new architectural movement, the Amoy Deco Style, which is a synthesis of the Modernist style of the early 20th century and Art Deco. - in: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1541

 

 

 

 CN-651167, sent by Wuai.
As a place of residence for Westerners during Xiamen's colonial past, Gulangyu is famous for its architecture. This the balcony of an old house in #64 Zhangzhou Rd.