Goodbye Hutong

Booming Beijing

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August 21st 2006
Great to see the old Beijing as they truly are bulldozing the city, in preparation for the Olympics 2008. We were staying in Far East hostel which is bang in the middle of a hutong. Our introduction to hutong-life was a taxi drive from the train station there. We felt so bad as the taxi driver barged his way thru these little streets, showing no mercy for rickshaws, bikes, pedestrians, street s ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more