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  • Beijing City International Students travel to Shaolin and Henan with The Hutong

    by Ian Gabrielson, Educational Programs Coordinator From September 9th through September 13th, the Hutong Education set out with Beijing City International School’s grade six students for our annual Shaolin: Kung Fu Kids program in Henan Province. Joining us again for the trip again this year was our very good friend and partner from XMA Martial Arts, Master Xie, whose expertise

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  • Ah, Fujian In The Fall …

    The Fujianese are China’s most intrepid souls. Many of the baby boys and girls who once crawled across these wooden tulou planks would go on to sail across the Pacific. And again, these earthen fortresses – built to keep outsiders out – are full of surprises.

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  • Beijing City International School students meet the Emperor and the Assassin

    The Hutong broke new ground with one of our oldest partner schools this fall as we headed to nearby Hebei, hot on the trail of the most famous assassin in Chinese history: Jing Ke. After starting our program in the center of by visiting Jingshan and Beihai Parks in Beijing, we took our journey West towards Yi County in Hebei Province.

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  • Hunting for Relics in Shanxi

    Shanxi isn’t actually that far from Beijing, and yet it’s a completely different world. Despite an economy relying on heavy industry and coal, Shanxi is the birthplace of China’s Golden Era.

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  • Good Eggs & Golden Youzis Seek Challenge in Yunnan

    The Hutong ran for Concordia Shanghai its Yunnan Cycle and Service program in September 2014. Below are the impressions of Hutong Co-Founder Stacey Shine, who joined the program as an observer: “I first went to Xishuangbanna 14 years ago, as a backpacker on an overland trip from Thailand to London. A few years later, I returned as an Intrepid tour leader

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