Hutongs of Beijing: A Pictorial Treasury Edition: A Pictorial Treasury Edition

Author: Weng Li
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: This is the illustrated commemorative edition of the best-selling "Hutongs of Beijing" (1992 edition), which has sold over 100,000 copies. The book comprehensively and detailedly introduces the history, layout, architecture, naming, anecdotes, and related urban planning, construction, and life in Beijing associated with hutongs. It is hailed as an "encyclopedia of Beijing hutongs." The book is accompanied by the "New Beiping Comprehensive Map." As a general term and representative of Beijing's streets and alleys, "hutong" not only forms the transportation network of Beijing but also relates to its urban layout. It is the foundation of Beijing's urban life, a place where residents live and thrive, and thus becomes an important stage for the historical and cultural development and evolution of Beijing. With the passage of time, changes in political climate, vicissitudes of life, warmth and cold of human relationships, storms and rains, joys and sorrows, lives and deaths, joys and sorrows—all are continuously performed on this stage and leave varying degrees of marks.