• Beijing Hutong: Daily Life at the Foot of the Imperial City (English-Chinese Edition): 36 Photographic Postcards
  • Beijing Hutong: Daily Life at the Foot of the Imperial City (English-Chinese Edition): 36 Photographic Postcards
  • Beijing Hutong: Daily Life at the Foot of the Imperial City (English-Chinese Edition): 36 Photographic Postcards
  • Beijing Hutong: Daily Life at the Foot of the Imperial City (English-Chinese Edition): 36 Photographic Postcards
  • Beijing Hutong: Daily Life at the Foot of the Imperial City (English-Chinese Edition): 36 Photographic Postcards
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Beijing Hutong: Daily Life at the Foot of the Imperial City (English-Chinese Edition): 36 Photographic Postcards

Beijing Hutong: Daily Life at the Foot of the Imperial City (English-Chinese Edition): 36 Photographic Postcards

Elderly men with birdcages, women feeding cats, persimmon trees in early winter, laundry hanging in courtyard alleys, and scenes from the 1980s and 90s — tear-out cards that hold decades of change in a few small frames
This is not a guidebook to Beijing‘s hutongs, and it is not a heavy photo album. It is a set of 36 tear-out postcards—each one printed with a photograph of everyday life in the alleys that have shaped this city for centuries. You see old men carrying birdcages, women feeding stray cats, persimmon trees bare in the early winter, bedsheets drying in a courtyard, and street corners that have already changed beyond recognition from the 1980s and 90s. You can keep the cards, frame them, or write on the back and send a piece of old Beijing to someone. If you want to hold a disappearing way of life in your hand and pass it on—rather than read a history of the hutongs or flip through a conventional picture book—this is it.
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For collectors of vintage Asia, lovers of Chinese culture, and anyone who has wandered Beijing’s alleys and left a piece of their heart behind.

This is not a book. It is a collection of memories — a set of 36 postcards that opens a window into the hutong life of Beijing, the “Imperial City.”

What you will receive:

  • 36 beautifully printed postcards featuring photography by Wang Wenbo

  • Bilingual captions in Chinese and English

  • A curated visual archive spanning from the late 1980s–early 1990s to the quieter, snow-dusted scenes of the present day

The imagery inside:
Leaf through gates weathered by decades. See a first snow settling over the gray-tiled rooftops. Meet the quiet characters of the courtyard — an old man with his caged songbird, a woman feeding neighborhood cats, persimmons glowing against a winter sky, bedsheets drying on a line strung between ancient walls.

Each postcard is a small, tangible piece of a Beijing that is rapidly disappearing. Perfect for framing, journaling, sending to a friend, or keeping as a daily reminder of the city’s unhurried rhythms.

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