Crowned the most beautiful hotel in the world in the 2025 Prix Versailles World Architecture and Design Awards, this historic ...

A Chinese man in a Hutong in Beijing, China. In our last column we discussed the “Brooklynization” of Beijing’s hutong neighborhoods, a process that shows parallels with areas like Bushwick. Here ...

People at a hutong in Beijing. Although Beijing is making incredibly fast forays into modernization, the true heartbeat of this ancient city still resides in its hutongs, which are today hidden behind ...

Hou's own books include Beijing Smoke-like Trees, which explores daily life in the city, and The Record of Beijing's ...

A woman walks through a hutong in Beijing. There’s an element of truth to each. Wang Ruishu, a native Beijinger who recently graduated from Parsons, grew up in a hutong two miles southeast of Mao’s ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Special correspondent Joanne Yao, a freelance writer based in China, is reporting from Beijing throughout the Olympics. The residents of ...

BEIJING, China – Beijing’s central hutong Nanluoguxiang has voluntarily applied to be stripped of its ranking as an A3-level government-recommended tourist site, saying it’s being overcrowded with t ...

First-time visitors to Beijing may worry that they’ve taken a wrong turn when they alight on trafficked streets dominated by modern skyscrapers. But by exploring the narrow streets and twisted alleys ...

A local travel agency has been ordered to pay 80,000 yuan (about US$ 9,638) in compensation for taking advantage of a competitor in the city's popular hutong (back alleys) tours, according to a ruling ...