AMOY (24° 27' N. 118 ° 4' E.) , a treaty port in the province of Fukien on the highly indented south-eastern coast of China. It lies at the head of a wide bay, studded with islands, into which flows the Kiulung river, whose basin occupies the south-east of the province. The harbour lies in the lee, i.e., to the west, of Amoy island and is one of the finest on the coast. Its natural hinterland comprises only South-east Fukien and its trade with the interior is becoming more and more confined within these limits. In the past it has had a much larger significance, for it lay on that part of the Chinese coast first reached by traders approaching China by sea from the Indian Ocean. Both the English and Dutch first traded with China through Amoy which in the i8th century monopolized the Chinese junk trade to the "Straits" and Java. It still retains close connections with Malaya whose Chinese population is drawn largely from Fukien and emigrates mainly through Amoy. This relationship with Malaya is illustrated by the foundation of Amoy university by K. K. Tan, a Fukienese, by means of wealth acquired in Malaya. Moreover, Amoy has had trading relations with Formosa, once part of Fukien, but since the cession of Formosa to Japan these have become less intimate. Its tea export, once its staple trade, drawn originally from Fukien itself and later from Formosa, has dwindled away. Although its total trade has risen in value from Hk.Tls. 10,058,401 in 1867 to Hk.Tls. 37,648,311 in 1926, it has fallen among Chinese ports from 8th to 15th place and in population from 300,00o to 114,000. Amoy is a port of call for coastal steam ship services, has ship-repairing facilities and industrial activities, such as canning and sugar-refining, arising out of the sub-tropical agriculture of its hinterland. The foreign population resides in a self-governing international settlement on Ku-lang Su island, across the harbour from Amoy island.