Gulangyu Island, China: Blue window with flowers.
Featured in Windows with a Romantic Flair, February 2012.
(Canon PowerShot G12)
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Xiamen (formerly known as Amoy) became a treaty port after China’s loss in the First Opium War and the Treaty of Nanking in 1842. Gulangyu is a small island opposite the city of Xiamen. As a former foreign concession, much of the island’s architecture is Western-style due to foreign settlement. More than a dozen countries established consulates, churches, and hospitals on the island. Gulangyu was officially designated an International Settlement in 1903.