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Images from Beijing – Hutong Kitchen
About a week ago I posted a few images of the drivers of the hutong rickshaw in Beijing. Tonight I am posting images from one of our stops in town. They are of a typical courtyard residence in Beijing’s hutong district. It is common for some families in the hutong district open their homes so [...]
Drivers of the Hutong Rickshaw
As part of our tour of Beijing, we took a rickshaw ride through the hutong district in central Beijing. Hutongs, which are commonly associated with Beijing, are alleys lined with traditional courtyard residences. Many neighborhoods were formed by joining one residence to another to form a hutong, and then joining one hutong to another. Since the mid-20th century, [...]
Impressions of Beijing
Please click the show above to see the complete album and captions. If you have not been to Beijing in the last ten years, you may not recognize the city. For three full days, my son Matt and I had an English-speaking tour guide, which enabled us to get more than a superficial glance at [...]