From May to September, visitors to Beijing are recommended to visit the city's hutongs, or lanes, along the banks of Shichahai, where scenes of the old Beijing are still preserved. When the sun is ...

About 300 meters long, the street starts from Di'anmen Avenue in the east and ends at Shichahai Lake in the ... is the most famous and popular hutong in Beijing. The hutong, first built in the ...

Forty-year-old Li Gang is a native Beijinger and his family has been living in the hutong of Shichahai for generations. For the last decade, he has shuttled visitors back and forth along the lanes ...

The restaurant's name is taken from an ancient Chinese poem. As the restaurant is located beside Shichahai Lake, its surrounding scenery lives up to the name. On a clear night, people dining at ...

Jenny Jing, manager at specialist tour operator Bespoke Beijing Shichahai Shadow Art Performance Hotel (from $71) “This little-known hotel deep in the hutongs — charming residential lanes ...

A six-part documentary called Shichahai's Stories, which describes the history and architecture of the neighborhood surrounding Beijing's three major lakes, Shichahai, Beihai and Houhai ...

Enter Lost Plate, a small tour company that dives straight into the dense alley neighborhoods (hutongs) of the old city and visits hole-in-the-wall restaurants that visitors generally can't find.

Shichahai Shadow Art Performance Hotel is a step back in time. Surrounded by a forest of ultramodern skyscrapers, this little inn is in a hutong, a neighborhood formed by a maze of alleys.

The need for more sites for more skyscrapers is the death knell for the tiny neighborhoods of Beijing called hutongs. The hutongs were laid out in the 1400 when Ming emperors built their capital ...

Hutongs are a traditional form of architecture in Beijing that once dominated the city, but are now found mostly near the Forbidden City in the heart of the Chinese capital. But China’s economic ...

The bars around Shichahai Lake are being encouraged to restart a largely ignored campaign to revive "red songs," a local business association revealed Sunday. Red songs are those defined by their ...