With over 520 pages and almost 700 photos, many by Fujian's top photographers, Fujian Adventure is now an eBook on Amazon for $1.99 promotional price (regularly $5.99). Click Here to download a copy and if you enjoy it, please rate it and share the link with your friends.If you (like me), don't have a Kindle
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Thanks so much for helping to get the word out. I hope to have some of my other 11 books online this summer.
Enjoy Amoy!
Dr. Bill
Amazon description of Fujian Adventure.
Columbus' goal was not a New World but a shortcut to India and to Marco Polo’s fabled Zayton in Fujian, China. Columbus never made it to Zayton, but you can.
Over 500 pages and almost 700 photos, many by award-winning Chinese photographers, bring to life the people and places of Fujian (Fukien), the cradle of Chinese seafaring (200 B.C.), start of the Maritime Silk Route, port of departure for Marco Polo and ibn Battuta, and ancestral home of most overseas Chinese.
Dr. Bill
Amazon description of Fujian Adventure.
Columbus' goal was not a New World but a shortcut to India and to Marco Polo’s fabled Zayton in Fujian, China. Columbus never made it to Zayton, but you can.
Over 500 pages and almost 700 photos, many by award-winning Chinese photographers, bring to life the people and places of Fujian (Fukien), the cradle of Chinese seafaring (200 B.C.), start of the Maritime Silk Route, port of departure for Marco Polo and ibn Battuta, and ancestral home of most overseas Chinese.
Meet Admiral Zhenghe, the "real" Sinbad; the
ancient Southern Shaolin Kung Fu Temple’s youthful abbot; the Hui'an maidens
who cover their heads, bare their bellies, and only sleep with their husbands 3
nights a year; the firewalkers who dance across the flames bearing heavy idols;
melancholy Miss Mo who became the sea goddess Mazu; Zayton’s famous marionette
makers; the Anxi farmers who produced the tea tossed overboard during the
Boston Tea Party. Visit China’s first Protestant church and the planet’s last
Manichean temple. Explore Gulangyu, the Roaring 20s’ “richest square mile on
earth,” which even today has over 1,000 “Amoy Deco” mansions. Discover the
secret of Hakka roundhouses that Nixon and the CIA thought were missile silos,
and then visit the nearby Amoy tiger preserve. Enjoy scenic Sanming, with
China's 4th largest gem beds, China’s largest sleeping Buddha, Ming Dynasty
villages, enchanting caverns and underground lakes. Marvel at Wuyi Mountain’s
2,000-year-old Min Palace, and the Eden-like biological diversity that drew
French naturalists in the 1700s to study the rare plants, king cobras and 33
foot pythons.
And of course there’s the Fujian food. Moliere said "Man should eat to live, not eat to live," but Dr. Bill says, "Moliere never ate Chinese food—especially Fujian food.”
Locals say Fujian is “8 parts mountain, 1 part water, 1 part field”. This torturous terrain not only gave rise to an innovative and tough people but also to more local dialects and greater cultural diversity—including cuisines—than any other province. Every hill, valley and river has a story behind it, and Dr. Bill invites you to explore them.
Author Bill Brown, Prof. of Organizational Behavior and Business Strategy at School of Management, Xiamen University, was Fujian's first foreign permanent resident and has driven over 200,000 km. around China,even through the Gobi Desert and Tibet,幸福福建),but still considers Fujian the most fascinating province for foreigners. In addition to textbooks such as Art of Business Warfare (Beijing University Press), he has written ten books about Fujian. He has also written and hosted several TV documentaries, including a 62-episode mini-series, "Fujian in a Foreigner's Eyes". In addition to teaching MBA, he hosts the weekly "Xingfu Fujian"《幸福福建》。
潘维廉/潘威廉,厦门大学管理学院福建省
Xiamen University
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