hutong videos

Welcome to my Hutong!

We often see many pictures of enormous skyscrapers and modern buildings when we read a story about the Chinese capital Beijing. However, many people in Beijing live in small houses in the local neighbourhoods, called 'hutongs', which are inner-city alleys lined with small houses, shops and businesses. Tian Huining takes KNN Sport on a tour of her houtong and tells us about the games she plays in Beijing.

Beijing Hutong

A little strolling, eating, and shopping in a quasi-hutong in Beijing. October 2006.

Michael Meyer living in his Dazhalan Beijing hutong

British Television ( Paul Merton ) visits Michael Meyer in his classroom and courtyard home in Beijing. He speaks to the subject of his up-coming book, "The Last Days of Old Beijing". For more see www.lastdaysofoldbeijing.com ( this is the replacement for a previous video with poor audio! )

Hutong Chronicles: Zhang Jinqi - Danwei TV Hard Hat Show

The last episode of Danwei TV's Hard Hat Show was an interview with the writer Mike Meyer, who is completing a book about his experiences living in the hutong area west of Qianmen. He introduced us to a Chinese writer living in the area, Zhang Jinqi. Zhang has recently published a book about the history of that area: The Carnal History of The Eight Big Hutongs (八大胡同的尘缘旧事, available on Chinese online retailersJoyo.com and Dangdang.com. This episode is a brief interview with Zhang ...

Plastered T shirts 2008 Hu Tong Catwalk Show

Plastered T shirts 2008 Hu Tong Catwalk Show

Road to Victory: Hutong Bike Race in Beijing

The English, baby! team arrives in China and competes in a hutong bicycle race, filled with useful race vocabulary. Brought to you by English, baby! where friends learn English together. See more Olympic English lessons on English, baby! at www.englishbaby.com Sponsored by TOEFL.

Hutong tours In beijing

Beijing hutong to see the traditional side of Beijing? Beijing hutong is an ancient city alley or lane typical in Beijing. Existed as early as hundreds of years ago, narrow lanes, or hutongs were common in ancient Beijing. In the past, several thousand lanes, alleys and quadrangles(siheyuan), formed residential areas for ordinary people living in the capital Beijing. Today, as the Beijing city develops into an international metropolis, its lanes and alleyways, occupying one third of the city ...

Hutong Chronicles - Mike Meyer: Danwei TV Hard Hat Show

Southwest of Qianmen and Tiananmen Square in Beijing is a maze of narrow alleyways stretching from the theater and market street of Dazhalan all the way west to Liulichang, Beijing's antique and traditional Chinese art supplies street. In the Qing Dynasty, this area was the city's commercial quarter where travelling tradesmen and local commoners who were not allowed to live in the Manchurian City (sometimes called Tartar City in English language accounts) north of Qianmen. It was also the ...

Hutong Kung Fu: Beijing - Lonely Planet Travel Video

A quick look at Beijing's most famous sites including the stunning Forbidden City and the Temple of Heaven. Plus, a cheesy Kung Fu fight in the city's historic Hutongs. Produced by In Deep films for Lonelyplanet.tv

Hutong History - Beijing China

The hutongs in the vicinity of Dongsi Jiutiao are some of the oldest and most special.

Hutong Architecture - Beijing China

Hutongs are narrow throughways, often alleys, most prominently present in Beijing, China.

Hutong Chronicles: Luoguxiang -- Danwei Hard Hat Show

Nan Luoguxiang is one of the oldest hutongs in Beijing and has been a residential neighborhood for hundreds of years. In the last few years, bars, cafés and boutique stores have flourished in the alley way, drawing tourists and Beijing residents in search of low key night life and a taste of old Beijing. In the last six months, the local government renovated the alley way, destroying temporary structures that some residents had built, cleaning up the facades of the buildings and repaving the ...

chinese shredder Xia Yan - Bei Jing Hu Tong (Metal)

This guy's pretty famous in china. This is one of his songs, nice arpeggios. Pls enjoy.

OLD HONG KONG NEW HONG KONG HUTONG KAI TAK CHEK LAP KOK

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Walk through a Beijing Hutong

This is a walk through a slightly more upscale hutong located about one block from the Drum Tower. The older Hutongs are a must see. Mike Spencer

LUNA BEIJING / VIDA NOCTURNA EN BEIJING / Hutong / Betty Monroe

© 2008, TV Azteca. VIDA NOCTURNA EN BEIJING por Betty Monroe

Beijing in Deep - Beijing¡'s Hutongs

Brendan and David visit the hutong in Beijing.

Old Wife I Love U Hutong Boyz 老婆老婆我爱你 胡同孩子 Two Chinese Boys

The Hutong Boyz sing FireWind's perennial classic 'Old Wife Old Wife I Love You' against the backdrop of China's countryside and cities. They may not look Chinese, but they lip-sync as if they were.

"Life at the Hutong"

Hutongs are the old neighborhoods of Beijing. They are the vivid remains of chinese community culture. This is a videoclip done during a bike ride in some Beijing hutongs and around (2007, China)

北京胡同HuTong--Bystreet in BeiJing

HuTong--Bystreet in Beijing. Hutong is a word from Mongolian. means a residential area(in northern china, especialy in BiJing). It's a meeting-point of culture, custom and history that need us protect it earnestly.

Sights & sounds of Nanluoguxiang Hutong, Beijing.

Take a virtual sunny day stroll through a, by turns, bustling and sleepy Bejing hutong. Brought to you by BeijingVisitor.com. Read more here: www.beijing-visitor.com

Chua Lam gives Lot 10 Hutong a thumbs-up

Asian celebrity food critic, columnist and media host, Mr Chua Lam, flew into Kuala lumpur for the opening of Lot 10 Hutong, Malaysia's first Gourmet heritage Village.

Hutong School Christmas Party~!!

Hutong School is a Chinese language school located in Beijing. We try to bring a little bit of East to the West and also introduce the West to China in many ways. One activity this year was our Christmas Party for all our students and their Chinese friends. We can see a Chinese Santa Claus giving away lots of presents, foreign students acting in a Chinese Christmas play and most importantly, we see how people from all over the world are having a great time with Chinese people in Beijing!...

Neil Rolnick: Economic Engine - 4 Hutong to Highrise

The Economic Engine, Mvt 4: Hutong to Highrise, with The Todd Reynolds String Quartet and Music from China. Video by Adam Kendall, with footage from Cindy Ng Sio Ieng. From Innova 724 CD. www.innova.mu hirise draft web 20090210

Reporting at a hutong ahead of the Beijing Olympics

Our China Media Internship participant, Lisa, is reporting for China Radio International. She is at a hutong which is a traditional form of housing in China. Hutongs such as this are hosting visitors during the Beijing Olympics. China Internship Program specializes in providing tailor-made Chinese internships for students from around the world. Each internship placement is custom designed to suit the student; be it for university placement experience or an alternative cultural experience ...