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The Amoy tigers did share a geographic proximity with many other tiger subspecies.
Historically, there were even Bengals lived in the southwest part of China, and that particular Amoy tiger was from that part of China, then I am not surprised that he did show some similarity with the Bengals. Even the current Asian elephant population that lives in China belongs to the Indian subspecies, and the historical Chinese subspecies of the Asian elephant was extinct long time ago.
Indian Asian Elephant - Elephas maximus indicus
Chinese Asian Elephant - Elephas maximus rubridens
Back to the topic about the South China tiger, I also do believe they showed a lot of variation because of the genetic exchange with many other tiger subspecies with the Amur/Bengal/Indochinese, perhaps even the Caspian in the northwest fringe of China.