A small provocation -- and I've never been to Amanfayun! -- but I've got to question the use of the word "authentic" in the above posts. Authentically what? Authentically great resort, I can accept... historical reconstructions that are accurate to one degree or another like Colonial Williamsburg or any good museum, I'm OK with that too.

But an authentically living Chinese mountain village, I doubt it. The pictures certainly don't look like any of the dozens of villages I have visited over the last 25 years, and I'm pretty sure they didn't look like that in the Tang Dynasty either.

Between marketing device and philosophical conundrum, "authentic" can be anything that is experienced as what it is... I'm just saying, it doesn't sound right in this context.