The Tulsa of China

Published 2007-01-25

Xiamen is wonderful and all but our visits to Hong Kong and Singapore make me wish we were in a larger city. We’re kind on the edge of nowhere here but without the actual middle-of-nowhere mentality. Too big to be rural but too small to be cosmopolitan. Xiamen is the Tulsa of China.

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