I'm still scrambling to find photos of the Amoy Foreign Cemetery, and just received a promising e-mail from Marilou in Holland. Visit Marilou's Zaiton China Webshop; it offers many interesting books, including a few of my own (but don't hold that against her).
From Marilou:
"I will ask some friend here (he is from Xiamen) about photos of the cemetery.
"One of our more famous writers/poets in Holland, Slauerhoff, visted Amoy for longer time in the 1920's-'30's if I remember well. He was a doctor on a shippingline (Batavia(Djakarta)-Japan). He wrote an short story about Gulangyu, title: Spring-Island (Het Lente-eiland) . I dont think there is an English translation available. I am not sure if he also took photos himself . I can have a look on internet later. This book now is republished just last year, and illustrated with photos, however by a contemporary (Dutch) photographer."
met vriendelijke groet,
Marilou den Outer/ Geledraak.nl
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