Strolling around Sanlitun, a glamorous shopping mecca and 24-hour catwalk in central Beijing, it’s easy to forget that the city is the home of what is essentially a one-party dictatorship ...

NEW YORK -- Beijing-China, one of the world's fastest rising cosmopolitan cities and a world-famous imperial capital, has a history of 3000 years with more than 860 years as the capital of China ...

Belatedly, Beijing is beginning to reclaim the old ways and old places, restoring some crumbling locales and turning them into destinations. 1949 - The Hidden City, which opened this spring, is ...

Rediscovering Beijing: A city with long history and modern skyline By Bruce Connolly | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2020-12-21 16:18 Share ...

Beijing was the capital of six dynasties, ... Beijing, a city where ancient meets modern. Chinaculture.org | Updated: 2020-08-27 17:07 Share. Share - WeChat. CLOSE.

Beijing’s art and design scene is going from strength to strength – Cathy Adams shows you the way It may be 3000 years old, but the Chinese capital is a thoroughly modern megalopolis.

“Beijing is the Chinese city with the most to discover below the surface,” Norton said. “Good arts and music scenes, bonkers nightlife, historical wonders, ultra-modern business districts ...

The layout of modern Beijing — arranged since the 1980s around a series of “ring roads” that segment it and control ingress and egress — functions as an unspoken callback to the old city's ...

Beijing's hutongs—narrow alleys or side streets—were once a city mainstay. Back in those days, the location of a hutong, formed by the space between the siheyuan (courtyards of homes), was ...

Beijing records longest cold wave in modern history as heating systems in part of China ... The cold weather in capital Beijing began days ago and has caused issues with the city’s metro system.