"Watch your step. Sit back and off we go," says a cheerful tour leader as a dozen tricycles carrying two foreign tourists each set out on a tour into the innermost parts of Beijing -- its "hutongs", ...

On the morning of Jan 12, 2013, Rehman and his friend started the tour by visiting 798 Art Zone. 798 Art Zone, located in the northeast of central Beijing, is often compared with Greenwich Village and ...

Beijing, a traditional and modern city, features profound culture. Before tall buildings sprung up like mushrooms, hutongs dominated this city in the past and cultivated the unique and long-lasting ...

"The alleys twist and wind through the inner city like veins and arteries moving through a living creature. There is endless fascination here: tiny markets, noodle shops, old men sitting in the waning ...