A recently-completed project aims to address this by giving an abandoned 900-year-old village a new lease of life as an art center ... Tower," which is a Chinese poem that tells of people waiting ...

But the most productive place for their work has turned out to be this Chinese village. In tiny garrets and vast factories, a few centuries’ worth of art emerges each day in the southern Chinese ...

created art installations, thrashed out business proposals and shared their rural life with their peers abroad, showcasing a "different" Chinese village to global youth. Richard Peiser ...

Memories of village festivals draw infectious laughter from his mother ... Houtouwan is "a microcosm of the entire Chinese society," said Zhao Yeqin, an associate sociology professor at the ...

Capitalizing on their unique character, Chinese villages are drawing up tourist plans that make use of a "combination" tactic. Take Yandunjiao village in Shandong Province, which is also on list ...