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Treat Yourself With These Four Chic Jewelry-Themed Beijing Afternoon Teas
The festive season is here, and with it, you may have a little extra cash to burn (or at least a burning desire to treat yourself). Luckily, these local hotels and restaurants sense your excitement and...
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Beijing's Best Events That Won't Leave You Hungover, Dec 26-31
Our Events Watch series aims to highlight happenings that aren't focused on alcohol and drinking, but instead take a more educational or productive approach. Events include comedy, talks, networking...
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WeChat's Christmas Hat Craze Shows the Success of WeChat Mini Apps and HTML5
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode.If you’re surrounded by excited WeChat friends sending out greetings chances are that you might already be sporting a Santa Clause hat on...
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2017 Year In Review: Our Top 10 New Cocktail Havens
A cocktail bar a day seemed to open in Beijing in 2017, especially bizarro, novelty rife spots in apartment complexes like Yolee Plaza. While many of them were fun one-offs that by no means compelled...
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Dirty Fingers Discuss the Benefits of Not Becoming "Part of the Beijing...
Frontman and lyricist Guan Xiaotian, guitarist Bing Xiaohai, bassist and principal composer Zhang Haiming, and Brazilian drummer Ale Amazonia make up the Shanghai-formed punk rock band Dirty Fingers,...
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China’s Most Popular Apps Are Also Helping Find the Country's Missing People
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode.Jinri Toutiao is now the single biggest finder of missing people in China. Since incorporating the functionality in February 2016 until...
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Our Top Picks to Dine 2017 Away in Style This NYE
If, like your editor here, you are not the type to want to spend New Year's Eve sweating in sequins in a club, then Beijing still has plenty of options for you. Celebrate the end of a frankly...
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White Tiger Village Owner Opens New Restaurant Cravings Near Chaoyang Park
A little over two years after opening his White Tiger Village restaurant at Xiang’er Hutong, Nathan Zhang has opened a new eatery called Cravings in a far different locale near Chaoyang Park. Like...
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Perfect Picture: On the Benefits of Traveling With a Selfie Stick
Many of my friends have asked me who always takes my pictures when I travel.“Me.”“But how?” they ask with bemusement.“I have a selfie tripod.”My travel arsenal consists of a selfie tripod with a...
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Tiago Opens at Promising Food Haven WF Central With Festive Menu
2017 has treated us well in that the opening of the North Zone of China World Mall has offered up a huge amount of dining options in the CBD. It now seems that Wangfujing is about to get the same...
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OlymPicks: Q&A With Alaska-Trained Winter Olympic Freestyle Ski Manager...
From the powdery white, long-established summits of Alaska, to the newly minted Beijing skiing resorts for the 2022 Winter Olympics, Qingping "Domo" Yu has certainly covered a lot of ground. The...
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Ring in 2018 With the Best Beijing New Year's Eve Parties This Weekend
On any normal week we'd post our regular Beijing Beats column and help you prepare for a Friday and Saturday packed with parties. But this of course is no ordinary week. With New Year's Eve landing on...
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Gay Filmmaker and Activist Fan Popo Lashes Out at Facebook Over Censorship of...
Though filmmaker Fan Popo was surprised to have an article about his experience working on a queer porn shoot published in Chinese media, he was flat out shocked to later see that content censored on a...
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Scottish Post-Rock Stars Mogwai to Play Beijing's Tango 3F, Mar 14
One of the world's most influential and popular post-rock troupes is set to hit the stage in Yonghegong this spring. Yes, six years after their sold-out concert in Shanghai, Glaswegian band Mogwai are...
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Kerry Hotel, Beijing F&B Director Edwin Kuk Tells Us Why Kerry is the Perfect...
Kerry Hotel BeijingWith 2018 fast approaching, we sat down with Kerry Hotel, Beijing Food and Beverage Director Edwin Kuk to talk about satisfying the needs of discerning Beijing customers and why...
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Throwback Thursday: The Time When a Ming Dynasty Temple Burned During Christmas
Throwback Thursday takes a look back into Beijing's past, using our nine-year-strong blog archives as the source for a glance at the weird and wonderful of yesteryear.There, there now. Not every blog...
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Noise Pollution: Dizzy Bats, Dirty Fingers, Kevin Harris Project, Xi Er &...
Time to beef up on those New Year resolutions and fill up the last few days of the year with as much regret as humanly possible (which as we’ve learned last year is quite a bit). Indulge to the fullest...
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Top 10 Chinese Unmanned Stores in 2017
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode.Amazon Go, the cashierless store design announced in late 2016, coincided with a flurry of Chinese tech companies to create their own...
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2017 Year in Review: The Most Memorable and Mind-Bending Gigs in Beijing and...
I really did try to dial it back this year. And when the LBM website was hacked, erasing thousands upon thousands of pictures and other uploaded content, I thought I’d found the perfect excuse to slow...
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2017 Year in Review: Best Beijing Travel Bits
What a year for traveling! We've rounded up the best destinations in China and international destinations so everyone's needs are intact. However, as sworn Beijing lovers, after a long flight or days...
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