The farmhouse will be used to host cultural events, summer camps and exchanges with Chinese students to bolster U.S-China relations.
It was going to be demolished, located on land soon to be flooded by the construction of a new dam on the Mekong River.“I admired the house and said, ‘I wish I could take it home with me,’ ” Flower said. “He said, ‘Why not? We can try.’ ”
“I can't take 60 kids to China,” Flower said. “But I can have 60 kids come here and experience China, in a way.” The idea that started as a joke over tea seemed feasible — Zhang, who was being relocated by the local government, was happy to sell his house to save it from demolition — and the educational opportunities were too exciting to pass up.The journey back to the United States was long and painstaking. Flower and a team of craftsmen returned to Cizhong in 2017 to document the house’s design and carefully pry its beams and floorboards apart.
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