1.   The Japanese added an eight-story atrium over the old courtyard where carriages dropped off guests.

2.   A restaurant will open in the old courtyard, reached from the street by the original cobblestone carriageway.

3.   At Hou Hai, part of a string of lakes northwest of the old imperial palace, old courtyard houses are being demolished to make room for new ones.

4.   I searched in vain for my old courtyard home in the Great Sweet Water Well Hutong, or lane.

5.   Most old courtyard houses, however, are the residences of the poor.

6.   Weekends have drawn hordes of people to Shihai, a normally quiet neighborhood of old courtyard homes surrounding man-made lakes in central Beijing.