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Keeping Beijing's hutongs alive, sketch by sketch

CGTN    |     Updated: 2017-10-02 11:31

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Artist Kuang Han [Photo/CGTN]

Artist Kuang Han, uses pencil sketches to recreate the Hutongs of Old Beijing.

Kuang Han was born in Yifeng, Jiangxi Province. After he graduated from the School of Fine Arts at Nanjing Normal University in 1989, he was assigned to live in Beijing. He lived in a Hutong when he first arrived here, and through time nurtured a deep emotional connection with Hutongs.

"Nothing in the world can compare with the culture of the Beijing Hutongs. Any Hutong you walk into, you'll discover the stories that happened and the people that lived there, as far back as the Yuan and Qing Dynasties."

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