With its glittering skyscrapers, maze-like hutongs and the enigmatic Forbidden City, Beijing is city of exhilarating extremes. It’s the little experiences that are most memorable—the graceful tai chi ...

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 ...

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 ...

Up there with Times Square, Red Square and St. Peter's Square, Tiananmen Square is among the world's most famous public spaces. Almost anyone can recognize the Gate of Heavenly Peace emblazoned with a ...

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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 ...

"Beijing doesn't have a skyline, so the scale model here is a great way to get a feel both for the city's layout and the scope of its new architecture."—Chloe Marsala, student of East Asian Studies ...

Beijing city distributed a notice allowing travel agencies to organize group trips to and from the city following China's optimized COVID-19 response last week. Experts said the move was taken to ...

Beijing might snatch all the column inches for its smog, but what the haze (literally) hides is a flourishing art and design scene. Since being designated a UNESCO City of Design five years ago, a ...

Bars and clubs were rare in the city. Liu says he had to “beg” the few bars that existed to let them perform. But the music that originated in the U.S. African-American communities in the late-19th ...

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 ...