I've been to the place this was removed from, Huangcun, a small village half an hour from Tunxi in Anhui. Fantastic place - as in, like a fantasy setting. Covered in subtropical rainforest. Barely connected with reliable roads when I went - several landslides during the monsoon. Nearly every flat surface is a managed cascade of rice terraces filling in the 50-100m wide valleys between straight 30-60 degree slopes, climbing the hollows into the hills; It has apparently been in this configuration for literally thousands of years. The village is a densely packed cluster of old masonry buildings and new modern houses. The masonry ancestral temple survived the Cultural Revolution partially intact. Visitor accommodations are in a side building constructed much like Yin Yu Tan at around the same time period.
They were trying to use the Peabody Essex money to start a tourist industry there without it being as obscenely overdeveloped as the nearby World Heritage Site at Hongcun.
They were trying to use the Peabody Essex money to start a tourist industry there without it being as obscenely overdeveloped as the nearby World Heritage Site at Hongcun.