Hutong Hypochondria 2009 | part I

Area around Gulou Dajie subway station | July 14, 2009 Last year, we coined a new type of psychological disease: “ hutong hypochondria “. This term applies to people suffering from an excessive preoccupation with the city’s history, usually becoming obsessed with little alleyways, and with stones that are strangely mixed with cardboard and wood structure. This suffering was Olympic and today the proponents have left the scene and the debate. In the mean time, Beijing’s hutongs are still disap

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