People walk past a parking lot in Dongsi Jiutiao hutong in Dongcheng district of Beijing on Sept 20, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua] Li Jing, a 33-year-old white collar worker who lives with her parents in ...

In Beijing's Dongcheng District, a team of young people is committed to the conservation and renovation of hutong areas, and also to improving the living environment of hutong residents. The team is ...

There is an old saying that circulates widely in Beijing: "There are 360 hutong with names, and countless nameless ones". It accurately reflects the state of things in a city densely covered by hutong ...

Xuanwumen, located in Beijing's southwest, has always been a cultural melting pot. It has the city's oldest Catholic church, the first women's teaching university and was home to China's first ...

They see themselves as warriors in a desperate battle to preserve old Beijing. After arranging to meet online, about 20 people gathered at exit B of the Qianmen metro station one recent Sunday morning ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hutong Filter is a studio added to a house in one of Beijing's traditional hutongs by architecture office Zai with pixel-style shingles and timber frames connecting to a communal courtyard. Beijing ...

New York’s foodie media largely neglect the restaurants within the warren of streets in Chinatown in favor of holes-in-the-wall elsewhere; rarely do the big, banquet-hall size Chinatown restaurants ...

Wells’s top tip to diners is to order the Midtown restaurant’s small plates — “only one or two other restaurants in town can plausibly claim to make dim sum that rivals Hutong’s,” he writes. He raves ...