Life in a Rapidly Changing Beijing

We’ll see lots of ultra-modern Beijing on TV next month. What we probably won’t see are the centuries-old hutong neighborhoods which are being destroyed at a record pace to make way for new development. We’ll explore them this hour with Michael Meyer, author of “The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed” (Walker and Company, 2008).

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