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A Nice Review in City Weekend….And Houguo Hutong Revisited

Posted: October 27th, 2011 | No Comments »

A wee bit of self-promotion (apologies, but you know…) and here’s a nice review of Midnight in Peking that popped up in City Weekend magazine.

By way of compensation I’ll throw in, for free, a nice picture of Peking’s Houguo Hutong as it looks today – in 1937, this hutong was one of the main crossroads of the Badlands and home to bars, brothels and cheap cabarets…take a stroll at night and you’ll get some of that atmosphere.



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