July 8, 2022 | Washington Post
August 30, 2024 | South China Morning Post
Even for John Flower himself, it was a crazy idea from the start: disassembling and transporting a farmhouse from western Yunnan province and reconstructing it in the United States…
November 3, 2022 | China Daily
The following summer, a “quarantine pod” of a dozen students, including two students from Sidwell’s sister schools in Beijing and Shanghai, worked for a month to build the surrounding hempcrete walls, enclosing the exterior of the house…
January 9, 2025 | Amazing Shenzhen
Hope for the China-U.S. relationship lies in the people, with grassroots connections as its foundation. While the two countries have experienced ups and downs in their bilateral ties…
December 24, 2024 | Xinhua News
“Almost heaven, West Virginia…” decades after John Denver’s iconic song introduced the Appalachian beauty to Chinese audiences, an American educator has brought a traditional Chinese house to Harpers Ferry, offering locals a glimpse into the enchanting landscapes of southwestern China…
June 28, 2022 | CGTN America Digital
Called the China Folk House Retreat, an educational program for students is bringing rural, traditional Chinese culture to West Virginia…
May 17, 2023 | CGTN
A farmhouse that would have been submerged by floodwaters in Yunnan, China, has become a bridge of friendship in the U.S. state of West Virginia…
July 28, 2022 | PR Newswire
Among the woods in West Virginia, America, stands a dwelling with vivid Chinese ethnic features: tall wooden columns, doors inlaid with delicate carvings, and bright ornate patterns embellishing the walls. Just a few years ago, the same farmhouse stood in Cizhong village, Yunnan province…
May 12, 2024 | Real WV
In Jefferson County, American history is not the only heritage and culture to be celebrated, as within a clearing of a dense forest stands the historic China Folk House…
May 18, 2023 | The Arlington Catholic Herald
St. Paul VI Catholic High School’s students studying the Chinese language explored Catholicism in Yunnan, China, through an experiential learning project…
November 5, 2024 | Virginia Military Institute
The house of a Tibetan Catholic family was built near Cizhong, China in 1989. With a blend of Tibetan, Naxi, Bai, and Han Chinese ethnic styles, the home follows traditional layout, materials, methods, and ornamentation of houses in the region going back centuries…
Winter/Spring 2023 | Sidwell Friends Alumni Magazine
It was, John Flower freely concedes, an audacious idea. He would move a family home from the mountainous Chinese province of Yunnan and faithfully reconstruct it in rural West Virginia…
November 1, 2025 | News China
From the Himalayas to mountainous West Virginia, a rebuilt traditional Yunnanese house has become a home for cultivating youth, people-to-people exchanges and coexistence with nature…
