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December 23, 2008
Hutong rubble
As Beijing continues to tear down the old to make way for the new, reducing the city's stock of traditional courtyard neighborhoods called hutongs to endangered species level, it's not uncommon to walk down the street and see straight into the remains of what a week ago was somebody's bedroom.
What do you think, boy's room?
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