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Slow Boat to Xiamen Our family took the "Slow Boat" to China (HK to Xiamen, 18 hours) in September, 1988. Bill says he moved to China because Chinese food is too expensive in America. We chose Xiamen (formerly Amoy) simply because Xiamen University was China's only campus in 1988 that accepted students with dependents--but we're glad we chose Xiamen.

Sue's parents, John and Ann Allison, taught English in Taiwan universities for 30 years, so she was born and raised in Taiwan. In other words, made in Taiwan (good quality, Bill notes, but no warranty). Young Sue Allison was a swimmer and cheerleader at Taiwan's Morrison Academy in Taichung (Taizhong).

Bill was in Taiwan from '76 to '78 while he was an airman and missile specialist in the U.S. Air Force. He became interested in China because of mainland propaganda leaflets dropped by a balloon right onto Air Force headquarters. He didn't believe any of the rosy propaganda, but it piqued his interest. In '88, ten years after leaving Taiwan, the Browns got off the "Slow Boat" in Xiamen and have lived on this enchanting island ever since.

We became Fujian's first foreign permanent residents in 1992, and in 1994 we drove our van, "Toy Ota", over 40,000 km around China to Tibet and Back. We went from Xiamen to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, across part of the Silk Road (which isn't all that silky), over a 17,300 foot pass to Tibet and back. And we found that every place in China is unique, but overall--there's no place like our adopted home of Xiamen.

Bill has taught at Xiamen University MBA Center since 1989, and written books, articles, TV programs, and eaten lots of Chinese food.

Shannon, now 21 and working in the Xiamen Seaview Hotel (Convention Center) and Matthew, 19 and headed to John Brown University in the summer of 2007, have grown up in Xiamen,and their parents have grown out.

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