Summary by @tldr:

10,000 Years of Strangeness: A Paranormal Primer for Ancient and Modern China Part I: The Author's Own True Tales Chapter 4: The Giant Monkey of Wutong Shan---Wu Tong Shan De Ju Da De Hou Zi
But since buses are used widely to access small cities and towns that aren't served by trains or air, there's always an interesting mix of travelers.
To most Americans (and Canadians too), a villa is a kind of ski lodge found in the mountains of Switzerland or Italy, whereas the house you live in is called a "house" or single-family home by real estate agents.
The villas are off to the right in a gated community with a reservoir and a school and some other stuff over on the left and it has the look and feel of a mix between Northern Virginia and Southern California.
In fact, as I'm recalling it in my mind's eye, it reminds me a lot of Bakersfield, CA, a sterile but attractive suburban Hell that, through its dark magic, arouses an ironic nostalgia.
I spent a few more seconds looking around and listening in, but detected nothing but bulbuls, great tits, tailor birds, the chortles of some masked laughing thrushes and the deep mysterious whoops of a coucal.
As Tony and I came through the gap and emerged on the edge of the common, we saw standing in the middle of that extensive green lawn, some kind of white, luminescent gorilla-like thing.