Who: Don and Vanda Edington of Cheyenne with the pedicab driver. Out and about: Don’t miss taking a pedicab tour in the Hutong area. The Hutong area near the Forbidden City was built during the Yuan, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Local officials in Beijing vowed to further renovate and protect the city's cultural heritage, in particular the narrow streets or alleys known as hutong, in the downtown area. Beijing's hutong [File ...

The heart of Beijing isn’t the cold, highway-crossed neighborhood around Tiananmen Square, but the corridors of old, hutong-style houses just to the north. Two landmarks stand sentinel over this area ...

Reporting from Beijing — Wang Xiuren’s traditional courtyard house in central Beijing, a short walk from Tiananmen Square, has witnessed the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the Japanese occupation, the ...

Beijing's heart can't be found in the shopping malls of Xidan or the glass-covered skyscrapers in the modern Chaoyang district. One has to dig a little deeper. "The hutong is a symbol of our tradition ...

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 which ...