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Beijing Walks

A Better Guide to Beijing
A Better Guide to Beijing
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Běijīng Walks

Short walks around Běijīng’s hútòng

Hútòng Walking

A general introduction to hútòng life and the history of these back alleys

Forward to the Past


Legation Quarter 东交民巷

Běijīng’s original foreign enclave, besieged in 1900
Part of A Better Guide to Beijing
’s coverage of the Imperial City

I dined that evening in the stuffy atmosphere of the British Legation. The compound of the English Palace with its


Hútòng Walking

Part of the Background section of A Better Guide to Běijīng

‘Where,’ demands the visitor, alternatively squinting at the fine mesh of streets marked on his map and then waving it in the face of the puzzled concierge, ‘is The Hútòng?’