Evan Osnos on Hutong Renovation or Lack of

Evan Osnos, a very nice chap who writes for The New Yorker from China and is the poster boy of foreign correspondents in the PRC, has done a nice piece that shows a little of how renovation, maintenance and, well, not doing much of either, affect Peking’s few surviving hutongs.

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Kuijiachang Hutong – not Osnos’s hutong but a rather nice one that has not succummbed to either bulldozer or endless overpriced, underheated coffee sellers or tat merchants.