Hutong or a courtyard home. The Chinese style of home is a series of rooms enclosing a central courtyard. A rich person may own the whole compound but today many of the existing hutongs have been subdivided into a few separate homes but still enclosing a central courtyard which may house a garden. A few of these old places exists in Beijing, the majority have been bulldozed and replaced by spanking new high rises.
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