1) This scenic spot is located at Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China. It was part of the drop off plan in our holiday trip to Hangzhou. You can take high speed bullet train from Hangzhou to reach Wuxi. It has been a shooting place for several famous TV series. Water margin xxx is one of them. It has another name called CCTV Wuxi Movie & TV Production Base. 2)They have English version website. You can browse through the basic info from here first. It may be best for you guys to engage a local 1 day tour for better understanding. 3) I not so sure whether they have books related to the "The Making of Water Margins" ... u can try to email to their official website. If story books related to water margins are easy to be found. If you have opportunity travel to China, you can check them through one of their biggest bookstore in the town u visit.

Hi Nicholas Like everything in China, it's all amount money. this is a recreation of the architecture during the three kingdoms period. As the mentioned in the previous response, yes, you can visit and it's located in Wuxi China. A couple of pointers, if you are going to both, go early, crowds will start building up around 10:00 am and start decreasing about 3:00pm. Now that school has started here in China, i expect the crowds would be less during the week and more on the weekend. If you stay all day, finding transportation back to your hotel will be more challenging after 4:00pm and may be limited to black taxi's. Make sure you have your address card and find out the price before you get it to the taxi. Understanding or speaking some mandarin is needed. There is a bus would drop you off, (your hotel can help you find where to take) but if you want to take back you need to find out when the last bus departs from the attraction. there are many websites available with helpful information, please search for Wuxi 3 kingdoms, water margin city, lingshan, and so on or search for Wuxi attractions. There are many other great views in the Wuxi area, so if you have time check out what else is in this area. Everything i went to was accessible by city bus (cheapest way) and taxi (more expensive). have fun and happy travels.