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Many expect some deep, philosophical response when they ask why we chose Xiamen University (XMU) in 1988, but my answer is rather prosaic: The Browns--Susan, Matthew, Shannon and Bill, in the Mongolian Restaurant in Xiamen  Amoy Magic--Guide to Xiamen and Fujian  tXMU was the only Chinese university at that time that let foreign students bring families.   A far more interesting question (or at least unusual answer!) is ¡°How on earth did we end up in Xiamen?"  The answer: it began. literally, with a sign from the heavens!

Sign From the Heavens 
After 20 years in China it is hard for me to believe that I never met a Chinese or ate Chinese food until I was twenty years old. I remember being told that one in four people on earth were Chinese and I said, ¡°That¡¯s not true. Our family has 4 people and none of us are Chinese!¡± But I got oriented quickly when the U.S. Air Force sent me to Taiwan for two years in 1976, and that was the beginning of a decade-long chain of events that led me right to XMU.

Bill Brown in Taiwan U.S. Air Force 1977As a young Air Force missile systems expert, my only interest in the mainland was as a military target. With hindsight, I¡¯m very thankful that by the 1970s Taiwan and the apocalyptic Yellow Peril were exchanging not weapons but words.

On a bright, spring morning, a batch of mainland propaganda leaflets fell from the heavens like colored snow right onto our Air Force base. I could not read Chinese so they did not interest me at all--until the Taiwanese police told us, ¡°You¡¯ll go to jail if you even touch them!¡±
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Forbidden fruit is always sweeter
, and I stuffed my pockets with I still have this in my office at Xiamen University! contraband propaganda, raced home, closed my curtains, and studied them secretly. I didn¡¯t believe the mainland was as rosy as the photos depicted (Red maybe, but not rosy), but they piqued my curiosity, and I began reading about Chinese history and culture. (by the way--I still have this one piece in my XMU office!).

I had already fallen for Taiwan and her people, and when I learned that 3/4 of Taiwanese were from South Fujian, I decided that someday I¡¯d visit the mainland. I never dreamed that a decade later I¡¯d not only visit but become Fujian Province¡¯s first permanent resident foreigner.
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Heard of Xiamen? In 1981, in Taipei, Taiwan, I married Susan Marie, who had been born and raised in Taiwan (her parents taught there 30 years).  We met, and married, because of our mutual interest in China Susan Marie Allison and Bill Brown were married in Christ College in Taipei Taiwan(Click for "China--our Matchmaker").  

In April, 1988, right after the birth of our second son, Matthew, a total stranger phoned from Thailand and said, ¡°I hear you¡¯re interested in studying Chinese in China. Have you ever heard of Xiamen? Their university has dorms for families¡­¡±

¡°No, never have,¡± I said, ¡°and my wife just had a baby so we can¡¯t go anywhere for a couple years. But thanks anyway.¡±

Exactly one week later, a man from Orange, California, phoned and said, ¡°I¡¯ve heard you want to study in China. Have you ever heard of Xiamen?¡±

¡°Yes, I have,¡± I said. ¡°Last week!¡± I met with him, and 5 months later my wife, two infant sons, and I were in Xiamen University.

Only English Teachers! When I showed up at XMU in 1988 with a PhD in management, half a dozen ¡°China Hands¡± said China wanted nothing but English teachers, and they suggested I return to the U.S. to get a degree in TESL. So imagine my surprise and delight when I heard that XMU was starting one of China¡¯s first MBA programs, and that they did have one foreign teacher. And as ¡°luck¡± would have it (for me, if not for him), the American teacher left China mid-year because of family issues back home. The Dean asked me if I¡¯d take his place, and I said, ¡°Let me think about it.¡± And after thinking about it for a good 30 or 40 seconds, I said yes, and we¡¯ve been here ever since.

It was the right place, and the right time, and I felt so proud to be part of the team that a couple years later awarded China¡¯s first MBA degrees (beating Nankai University by 6 days). But in 1988, neither XMU nor Xiamen was remotely like the idyllic city and campus we take delight in today.

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A Poor SEZ XMU may well have been China¡¯s only key university in a Special Economic Zone, but China was still a poor country, recovering from decades of difficulties, and XMU¡¯s living conditions left much to be desired. The electricity and water were shut off several days a week (we were once without water for 4 days and I lugged it up the hillside in buckets). When we did have water, it gurgled from the faucet brown, like tea. The air was dirty as well, full of coal soot, and I coughed like a veteran smoker.

Roads were poor, we had only 3 main bus rouses, and buses were di-lapidated. Black exhaust often billowed through the busses¡¯ wooden plank floors and sometimes I looked like a minstrel by the time I staggered off.

Rains transformed our campus¡¯ dirt roads into quagmires, with vehicles mired in the mud at the university gates. Though we¡¯re an island the drainage was poor and XMU often flooded. After one typhoon, Foreign Affairs (now ICE) spread their documents on the lawn to dry them in the sun. (I was curious to read what they had on me, but I didn¡¯t have the nerve to sneak a peek).

If foreign teachers¡¯ living conditions were bad, those of famous Chinese professors and leaders were even worse. I often encountered Liu Peng, our MBA Center¡¯s Dean, walking home in a robe from the public bathroom a block away. Ji Yuhua, now the nationally famous Uncle Beard, lived in one room, and like other teachers he had built a kitchen of cardboard in the common hallway (replete with padlock on the cardboard door!).

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Changed From Within We would have never imagined in 1988 that only a decade later we¡¯d have the idyllic campus we take for granted today, and that Xiamen City would be a garden city recognized internationally for balancing record economic growth with sound environmental preservation.

In 2002, I spent eight months researching Xiamen to help represent her Bill and Sue in La Caruna Spain for the Livcom awards for livable cities in 2005 representing Shanghai Songjiangin Livcom, an international competition for livable cities in Stuttgart. I was awed at what I discovered. While anyone with eyes in their head can see that the ¡°Garden City¡± is indeed one of the most beautiful cities on the planet, the casual observer does not see the tremendous quality of leadership and planning that made such comprehensive changes possible.

XMU, like Xiamen City, has undergone not a mere cosmetic makeover but an evolution of purpose and spirit¡ªthough I did not have an inkling of the sheer scale of change until I researched this book. I also had no idea of XMU¡¯s contributions not just to China but to the rest of the world over the past 85 years. This book only scratches the surface, but I hope it will help you understand, in some small measure, why XMU is not only the Strength of the South but the Strength of the Nation as well.
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DAILY LINKS
Frequently Asked Questions about Xiamen andFujianFAQs Questions?
Info on apartments or houses in Xiamen, real estate agentsReal Estate
Xiamen Shopping guide malls supermarketsShopping Download  Xiamen MapsMaps
Xiamen BookstoresBookstores

Train rail schedule for Xiamen, fukien Trains Amoy Bus ScheduleBusses
Xiamen hotels guesthouses hostels Hotels English News Services sources in Xiamen Fujian ChinaNews (CT)
Doctors Dentists Hospitals Clinics in Xiamen Jimei and Tong'an Medical & Dental
Xiamen YMCA and YWCAYMCA Volunteer! Xiamen International Christian Fellowship Expat Nondenominational interdenominational
Xiamen International Christian FellowshipXICF Fellowship 
Xiamen Churches Protestant Catholic Seventh Day Adventist Amoy Mission Missionaries AbeelChurches
Xiamen Expat Association Welcome SupportExpat Groups
Hire a Maid Household help servant baomu amah etc.Maids Xiamen Emergency and Frequently used telephone numbersPhone #s
EDUCATION
Xiamen University GuideXiamen University
Xiamen International School  International Baccalaureate ProgramXIS(Int'l School)
Study Mandarin Chinese or Minnan Dialect at Xiamen University  or with private tutorStudy Mandarin
 
China Studies Program Xiamen University  Council for Christian Colleges and Universities Washington D.C. Jay LundeliusCSP(China Studies)
Piano Island Music Events Xiamen Philharmonic OrchestraLibrary Xiamen Museum Library Science Center  World's largest organ museum Asia's largest piano museum China's first anthropology museum Sino Eurolpean art museum etc.Museums
History of Amoy Changchow Chinchew Zaiton Fukien etc.History
DINING
Xiamen restaurants dining western and Chinese cuisineRestaurants Xiamen Asian restaurants -- Singapore Thailand Thai Malaysian  Japanese Korean PhilippineAsian
Xiamen Vegetarian cuisine Nanputuo Temple Seventh Day Adventist Health foodVeggie Xiamen Restaurants Fast Food McDonalds KFC Kentucky Fried Chicken Pizza Hut Burger King (just kidding!) Cafes Coffee shopsJunk Food
Xiamen restaurants dining western and Chinese cuisineChinese Xiamen Italian Restaurants -- over 40!  Pizza pasta cheeseItalian
Western (Internationall) Cuisine in XiamenInternationalAlien visa info -- Americans, Europeans E.T. Outer space visitors
Chinese visa and passport informationVisas 4 aliens
RECREATION
Hakka Earthen architecture Massage!
Hakka Earthen architecture Beaches Kite Flying in Xiamen ChinaFly Kites
Sports -- Golf, Badminton Tennis Bowling Paint BallSports Xiamen Boardwalk One of the most beautiful boardwalks in China or anywhere else.  Along the Island Ring road over 6km long so far.Boardwalk
Xiamen Parks, recreation, hiking boardwalk etcParks Xiamen Museum Library Science Center etcPets
Bird watching in Xiamen Amoy  SwinhoeBirdwatching
Martial arts Chinese Kung FuKung Fu Hiking around Xiamen BushwalksHiking
Piano Island Music Events Xiamen Philharmonic OrchestraMusic Events
Chinese festivals and culture minnanFestival&Culture
Chinese Jokes Humor Funny China photosHumor&Chinese Jokes Humor Funny China photosFun Fotosfunny photos of China
BUSINESS
Doing Business Invest in Xiamen Fujian ChinaDoing Business
Work or teach in Xiamen, Quanzhou or other Fujian schools and universities  English French RussianJobs!(teach/work)
Hire permanent or temporary workers labor craftsmen maids tutorsHire Workers
Foreign Companies in Xiamen Joint Ventures Foreign Companies
China International Fair for Investment and Trade and Cross Straits Exchanges
CIFIT (Trade Fair)
Common Talk Xiamen Dailys Weekly English SupplementMTS(Translation)

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