Xiamen Trade

Maritime commerce through Xiamen (Amoy), the Fujian port that was a hub of the South China junk trade in tea, sugar, porcelain, and the emigrant traffic to Southeast Asia. It was a base for Koxinga’s anti-Qing sea power in the seventeenth century. After the First Opium War, the Treaty of Nanking (29 August 1842) opened Amoy as one of the five treaty ports; the island of Gulangyu later became an international settlement. Tea and overseas-Chinese remittances drove its later trade.