Constricted streets or lanes are commonly known as Hutongs in China. Conventional patio mansions form lines of siheuyan which are lanes or hutongs in Beijing. Localities were shaped by unification of several hutongs which in turn were formed by linking several siheuyan. These neighborhoods are sometimes referred to as hutongs.
From the middle of the 20th [...]
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