Site Represents a site. Contact ls306@st-andrews.ac.uk Status public Institutional nature Museum, Ecomuseum, Extended Museum, Territorial Museum, Cultural Center, Memory House, e-Museum, etc Place Name Place The town or city Siming District, Xiamen, China Condition 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kulangsu Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived worldheritagelayer Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource ls306@st-andrews.ac.uk Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 348 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,24.448,118.06615; Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. UNESCO Description An account of the resource Kulangsu is an island in the city of Xiamen in China. Kulangsu Island is existed since 3000 years ago, from the 8th-century people started to live on this island. In 1903 with the opening of the commercial port, this island started to become an international settlement. The architecture in Kulangsu is a fusion of styling of the Fujian and western styles. From 1843 the western-style architecture began to appear on this island. In the 20th century, the residents started hiring foreign architects to build stylish villas on the island. Although some of the buildings had slightly destroyed World War 2, most of the buildings were well preserved. Apart from this, Kulangsu is also a cradle of music. Hundreds of musicians were born and raised in Kulangsu. Almost every family on this island owns pianos in their home. So this island is also known as the island of music. This island also holds a piano museum, with many traditional pianos here. All the culture and artefact elements made Kulangsu a special exist in the city. Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). 20/05/2021 References A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource. https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1541/ Extent The size or duration of the resource. cm x cm x cm Subject The topic of the resource Immovable Culture Heritage Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Object The URL of a suitable source image in the best resolution available on the web site of the data provider from which small images could be generated for use in the portal. This will often be the same URL as given in europeana:isShownBy. https://kulangsuisland.org/ Europeana Data Provider The name or identifier of the organisation that contributes data to Europeana. Kulangsu Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT Ancient China tangible heritage