People at a hutong in Beijing. Although Beijing is making incredibly fast forays into modernization, the true heartbeat of this ancient city still resides in its hutongs, which are today hidden behind ...

BEIJING, Sept. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Hutongs are among Beijing's most iconic symbols, with nearly 1,000 of them still stretching across the city today. It's said since Yuan Dynasty, the Beijing city ...

BEIJING — An old way of life is being swallowed by the hungry march toward modernization. In the past decade, the quaint, crumbling communal neighborhoods known as hutongs have been razed in favor of ...

Beijing is a city of contrasts: It has dazzling Olympic venues as well as the ancient city, a maze of homes and alleys, or hutongs, that are... A Walk Through Beijing's Vanishing Hutongs Beijing is a ...

A Chinese man in a Hutong in Beijing, China. In our last column we discussed the “Brooklynization” of Beijing’s hutong neighborhoods, a process that shows parallels with areas like Bushwick. Here ...

2004-08-15 04:00:00 PDT Beijing-- It's a slow day in Beijing's historic hutongs, as it has been nearly every day for a millennium. Women with bundled twig brooms sweep the dusty lanes. Children ...

A woman walks through a hutong in Beijing. There’s an element of truth to each. Wang Ruishu, a native Beijinger who recently graduated from Parsons, grew up in a hutong two miles southeast of Mao’s ...

Only one third of Beijing's hutongs still exist -- most have been demolished or partially destroyed, according to a newly-released survey. The field survey, conducted by the Beijing Institute of Civil ...

Fifty years ago, Beijing had 3,000 hutongs — narrow alleys flanked by old, one-story houses and crowded with people. Some of the alley communities have existed for 800 years. But as Beijing modernizes ...

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