With this Thursday evening through Sunday itinerary, you’ll be able to hit all the bucket-list items, uncover a few less-visited spots, and still have some time to chill in the beautiful green areas ...

A vendor makes jianbing in her shop. Beijing is an unruly beast with ancient pride, memorable wounds and plenty of business plans to get on with. In the past four decades, millions of people poured in ...

Beijing, with its vast expanse of ring roads, cultural monuments, and inescapable smog, exudes its own brand of unique charm. “It’s a city of extremes,” Wanwan Lei, 28, a perennial It girl and ...

The famous portrait of Mao Zedong still looks out over Beijing as though he's guarding communist austerity and discipline. But the Beijing he stares out upon is hardly the city he left behind. Change ...

The best ways to get around Beijing are on foot and by subway. As one of the largest, most populous cities in the world, Beijing has its fair share of traffic problems. During morning and evening rush ...

The municipal authorities seem to have finally made up their mind to seriously do something about the city's chaotic day-tour market. This has been long overdue. Beijing is among the most popular ...

North of the Forbidden City, this neighborhood packs so much character into its narrow streets (hutongs). Nanlouguxiang continually surprises you with exciting discoveries in boutique shops and ...

As dusk falls on a just-moderately-polluted Beijing day, a buzz of activity fills photographer Chen Man’s Studio 6, set in the east of the city, past the Fourth Ring Road. Chen, a 36-year-old Beijing ...

Let’s check in with Beijing. The city’s importance as an arts destination keeps growing, as shown last year when Beijing’s National Museum nearly ousted the Louvre as the world’s most-attended art ...

The only one to score the highest honor, three stars, was the Beijing outpost of Xin Rong Ji, a seafood-centric chain whose first location opened in Zhejiang in 1995. In its official announcement, ...