Normally when you walk through a gate in a hutong in Beijing, you have a courtyard with ... and famous writers such as Lu Xun would often come to the area; now Soloist Coffee is a nice place ...

Watch Meyer show one of Beijing's old hutong areas » The destruction of ... in the world," he added in the e-mail. The Qianmen area, particularly southeast of the Qianmen gate -- home to Dashilar ...

Indeed, you could spend your whole trip — and most of your annual salary — having a blast in the area ... spitting in Beijing) of the latest hipster coffee shop. Often the hutongs are clustere ...

Beijing's best known hutongs are of three ... Zhejing Province to the capital and stored in Lumicang District. Hutongs in the area took on the names of the various granaries, names that have ...

The reception area once you’re inside is tastefully ... to become a central feature of the decor. The buildings in Beijing’s hutongs are protected and cannot be built upwards, so every part ...

Editor's note: "Beijing Journal" is ... houses that once lined up these hutongs, or alleys, now in different stages of being knocked down. While the Qianmen area is going through an extreme ...

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 ...

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 transformed ...