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Culture: Learn more about the "Twelve Beauties" of the Summer Palace, a set of paintings commissioned by Qing emperor Yongzheng, which decorated a screen in the palace's Deep Willows Reading Hall.

Video: Robin, an architect from Brunei who has lived in a Beijing hutong for about 10 years, talks about his opinion of the renovations and reuse of old buildings and communities.