Born and raised in Chicago, Brian Linden has lived for 18 years in the town of Xizhou, Dali. Linden has devoted himself to protecting Xizhou's culture with like-minded friends in Southwest China's Yunnan Province. Check out this video to see how they are trying to bring the town's heritage to life and tell a real story about Chinese culture to the outside world.

(Produced by Lin Rui, Xie Runjia and Zhao Dantong; Intern Hou Chenchen also contributed to this story.)