Hanging on to the past

A luxury resort and Hangzhou authorities are safeguarding the cultural heritage of the city, one of seven ancient Chinese capitals.

Pang Ying is like a female Indiana Jones amid the Terraces of Dragon Well Tea, protecting the integrity of one of China's most cherished and costly green tea brands by roaming the verdant hillsides of Zhejiang's Hangzhou in her spare time.

The temples of doom would be anything but - seven ancient Buddhist temples scattered around a traditional Chinese village that has been remodeled as Amanfayun, one of three luxury Aman properties in China that blend harmoniously with their surroundings.