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A migrant worker takes a break beside a construction site along a Qianmen Hutong in Beijing, on June 8, 2008. About 1,000 of Beijing’s famous old alleyways, known as “hutongs” remain, down from some 3,000 in 1950. The Qianmen development spells a...