Hutong

I was reading about how Asian partners and suppliers right now are redrawing up their plans in the event that Hwang would no longer be at the helm because there is a fear that the potential successor would not maintain the kind of favorable relationship that, you know, the South Korean business people have been getting, you know, eating.

fried chicken and beer in the streets of Seoul and, you know, walking around Beijing, Hutongs eating noodles.

I mean, this guy was, you know, really good at the PR, but he was a diplomat.

And that was such a big part of the job, which I guess kind of makes sense from Tim Cook's perspective, because, you know, he does pop up in Apple stores around in places like Beijing as well and gets a lot of fanfare around that.

The dynasty was replaced by Ming dynasty.

However, Hutongs stayed.

Mongolians left, but the word stayed.

Now, I have to mention there is another theory.

Wider hutongs means higher status.

The narrowest hutong in Beijing, for example, Qianshi Hutong, is near Qianmen, south of the Tiananmen Square.

it only has 40 centimeter wide at its narrowest point and that means you have to walk through sideways it still exists right now so if you're in beijing i would say definitely go and check out The Hutongs multiplied with every single dynasty.

Yuan dynasty, a few hundred, the originals.