‘Early in the morning, I went for a walk along Yundang Lake and came across a group of tai chi (an ancient and distinctive Chinese form of exercise that involves flowing and rhythmic moves) practitioners,” Evandro Menezes de Carvalho, a professor of law at and head of the Brazil-China Center at FGV Law School in São Paulo, Brazil, said when asked about his first impression of Xiamen, a coastal city in the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian. Menezes was one of the participants in a four-day event, from December 19 to 22, 2023, that explored Xiamen’s cultural inheritance and innovation.
Yundang Lake, located in the heart of Xiamen, is a seawater lake that reflects the urban landscape surrounding it like a shiny mirror. But this wasn’t always the case… The lake used to be very dirty, but since the late 1980s, the local government has transformed it into a prime
