The hutong has not been bricked up or lost its ... strong forces within the Party wished to open a window to the world and reverse these policies. The 17-story building was almost a statement ...

Unlike most tours that have you learn about new place by looking at it through a bus window, the hutong tours bring you right into people's lives. Even the Lonely Planet, the most anti-tour group ...

"They highlight the delicacy of doors and windows. In hutong, these are few, discreet, and defensive. But every opening that allows a gaze or a passerby becomes enriched with colors, patterns and ...

How many hutongs are there in Beijing? Old local residents have a saying: "There are 360 large hutongs and as many small hutongs as there are hairs on an ox." Laid out in a chessboard pattern ...

Qishe Courtyard is a former abandoned hutong that has been converted into ... but the roofs, walls and windows had fallen into disrepair. Instead of restoring the structures to their original ...

STAY This isn’t the Beijing of gleaming towers and high-speed gloss. Mandarin Oriental Qianmen sits tucked inside one of the city’s oldest hutongs – a maze of narrow alleys, centuries-old ...

Shortlisted for residential rebirth of the year at Dezeen Awards 2020, Qishe Courtyard is a former abandoned hutong that has been ... walls and windows had fallen into disrepair.