Houtong
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The signs of the old Beijing disappear daily as the last remnants of the traditional houses and neighborhoods are scraped away to make room for high-rise apartment homes. One stanza of the poem from the new book, 10 Stories Down, states:
The houtong, we call them ghetto,
but there are no fences.
This is not the Beijing of outsiders.
This is the phoenix’s lair from which life springs.
The houtong, we call them ghetto,
but there are no fences.
This is not the Beijing of outsiders.
This is the phoenix’s lair from which life springs.