China Travel Stories

Hutongs and Highrises

Date: 2008-3-12 1:21:00 by Mark_smith Tags: Hutongs Beijing Hutongs

Is it called the Forbidden City because it is a threshold between the rich on the eastern side and the poor on the western?  It certainly seemed so.

When I walked out of the hair salon I was dismayed.  There have been times, leftover birthday cake before me, when I have cut a sliver off the edge to even the line, and again to even that one, and so on, until only a sliver remai

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