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 ...

Normally when you walk through a gate in a hutong in Beijing, you have a courtyard with one big house and then smaller houses ...

Beijing's buildings and the people who have lived in them have drawn attention to the preservation of Shijia hutong. Residents in the hutong registered a civil society group in August under the ...

BEIJING, Sept. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Hutongs are among Beijing's most iconic symbols, with nearly 1,000 of them still stretching across the city today. It's said since Yuan Dynasty, the Beijing city ...

No one could tell the exact numbers of hutongs in Beijing. Numerous hutongs, broad or narrow, long or short, intertwined in the city of Beijing. It is no exaggeration to regard the culture of Hutongs ...

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 ...

With evocative names such as “Skewed Tobacco Pouch Street” and “East River Rice Lane,” the charming, ancient hutongs of Beijing are always popular with visitors to the sprawling capital city. Narrow ...

Beijing is a city of contrasts: It has dazzling Olympic venues as well as the ancient city, a maze of homes and alleys, or hutongs, that are... A Walk Through Beijing's Vanishing Hutongs Beijing is a ...

Visiting Beijing's hutong is a must-do when tourists come to the city, not just because of the winding alleys' long history, dating back to the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368), but also the hastening pace of ...

A man rides his bicycle in Shijia Hutong of Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 1, 2017. In early winter in China's capital, you can still catch neighbors chatting to each other in their Beijing dialect ...

Since April, Dongsi sub-district has restored 74 gateways and refurbished 12,000 square meters of street walls, restoring exterior facades to their original gray color. Dongsi Sitiao Hutong has seen ...