Articles tagged with 'hutong' — 1 found


Beijing’s vanishing charm: for a buck, for better living conditions, and for a hefty price

Chicken coup, built atop a home inside a Beijing hutong It’s a bit mysterious to me how my fascination with China began; this far into it, I cant quite retrace the steps back to the beginning. But one of the first books I read about the country was journalist Ian Johnson’s Wild Grass: Three Portraits [...]

July 21st, 2010