保留了清代风貌的北京胡同面临着两难的抉择:为现代化让路,还是作为旧中国活的见证而加以保护。有些胡同建于200多年以前,没有自来水,没有下水道,卫生条件差,是传染类病菌的孳生地。旧胡同与要举办奥运会的首都、与摩天大楼、与政府想要赋予的新形象,是那么地不协调。虽然胡同是上个世纪中华帝国的见证,而 Beijing Hutong, which preserved the style of the Qing dynasty, faced the dilemma of whether to give way to modernization or to protect it as a living testimony to old China. Some alley built more than 200 years ago, there is no running water, no sewers, poor sanitation, is a breeding ground for infectious diseases. The old alley is so uncoordinated with the capital, the skyscraper and the new image the government wants to host. Although the alley is the testimony of the Chinese Empire in the last century,