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Word: hutung (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...comfortable beats. Life in the walled university city, the base for covering North China, was graceful, unhurried, and for a foreigner with U.S. dollars comparatively cheap. Newsmen came for brief visits and, taken by Peiping's ancient charms, often stayed on for months in Ta Tien Shui Ching Hutung (Big Sweet Water Well Alley), Peiping's correspondents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Bamboo Curtain Falls | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

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