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Armour Factory Alley in 2016 – Holding on…

Posted: November 7th, 2016 | No Comments »

A friend recently strolled down Armour Factory Alley in Beijing, now Kujiachang Hutong. It was of course where both the Werners (from my book Midnight in Peking) as well as Edgar and Helen Foster Snow lived….The latter courtyard house is gone; Werner’s remains (though intensely sub-divided). Anyway, at least it survives amazingly….

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