Amoy
a seaport town and one of the treaty ports of China; on a small island of the same name in the province of Fukien; 325 miles E. by N. E. of Canton, and directly opposite the island of Formosa. It was one of the earliest seats of European commerce in China, the Portuguese having had establishments here in the 16th and the Dutch in the 17th centuries. In 1841 it was taken by the British, and, by the treaty of Nankin, a British consul and British subjects were permitted to reside here. This port is especially important in its relations to the prospective trade of the United States with China, and already its trade with the United States leads that of all other Chinese ports. During the international military operations in China, in 1900, the city was occupied by the Japanese. Pop. (1917) of port, 300,000; city, 114,000.