depending on the context -- can survive urban development post-Olympics is perhaps best answered by Beijing's urban planners. Among the endangered are the hutongs, or narrow alleys, and siheyuan ...

The best way for a newcomer to see them is through a rickshaw tour offered by the Beijing Hutong Tourist Agency. You may be shaking your head - how can one learn anything through an organized tour?

Although the city has changed a great deal over the last 500 years, the hutongs remain much the same as during Ming and Qing times. Beijing's best known hutongs are of three types: centers of ...

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After visiting so many cities in China I've finally made my way to the capital of the People's Republic of China, Beijing. Where most travellers start their Chinese adventure, I end mine ...

In a maze of hutongs in central Beijing, the Mandarin Oriental has opened its second hotel in the capital city. Some of the residential courtyards that make up these small alleys have been ...

Exploring the Mutianyu section is perhaps the best way to do it in one ... Weaving through the maze of residential hutong alleys that comprise the lifeblood of Beijing is an unforgettable ...

French artist and architect Clara Bryon. [Photo provided to China Daily] Bryon spent her Beijing residency living in a hutong, an alleyway courtyard residence. To her, the city revealed itself in ...