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"It Takes a Village\nReviving a Group of Houses Under the Great Wall Helps Invigorate the Local Economy\nAmerican businessman James H. Spear Jr. and his wife and partner, Liang Tang, a marketing and sales professional, remodel traditional Chinese homes for rental. Heart's Repose, above, was a farmhouse.\nMutianyu Village, nestled near a Ming Dynasty section of China's Great Wall, is home to the Schoolhouse, a sustainable tourism enterprise that Spear and Tang founded to benefit the area's economy.\nWith no formal design training, Spear has renovated 23 old peasant houses, such as Stone Forest (pictured), which had been abandoned and required substantial new construction. He obtained the decorative stones from one of his many local collaborators.\nThe master bedroom of the 4,500- square-foot Persimmon Court (pictured) has a restored open-beam ceiling and is decorated with Chinese antiques. The unusually high walls indicate the relative wealth of the original owners. Spear used polished slate on the floors.\nThe courtyard of Heart's Repose (pictured) features salvaged brick and curbstones.\nIn the kitchen of Hillside Haven, glassware blown in the studio Spear founded sits atop a table made from an old door.\nIn front of the multipurpose Schoolhouse are hand-hewn feed troughs that Spear and Tang turned into planters."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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