All Around Beijing
March 29th 2008 As you may have heard, the quaint old Beijing neighborhoods are rapidly disappearing. The narrow winding lanes, or hutongs, with traditional courtyard houses and small tile-roofed single story homes (mostly lacking central heating and indoor plumbing) are going. Huge heavy walls are thrown up around city blocks of these and the sites are being completely transformed. EVERYWHERE Old Beijing is bein
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