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Diaosi Meets Girl Power As Relationship Simulation Game Takes China by Storm
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode.Who says gaming isn’t romantic? A female-targeted mobile game Love and the Producer (恋与制作人) (our translation) has taken China by storm in...
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"Something Inside Me 'Knew' I Could Play It" Says Grammy Nominated Harmonica...
With the temperatures in Beijing dropping into negative numbers and electric heaters moving closer and closer to the bed, many of us are in dire need of keeping the chills at bay. Thankfully Yue Space...
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New Year's Holiday Weekend Brings Scores of Revellers to Beijing
However you celebrated the passing of the New Year in Beijing, it's most likely you did it in a crowd of people as the city welcomed record-breaking crowds over the three-day holiday weekend.Over 2.1...
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Net Neutrality May Shape the Next Episode of China's Internet War
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode.Just as the US decision to overturn “net neutrality” – a set of principles stipulating that internet service providers must treat all...
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Multiple Malfunctions Mar Opening of Beijing's New Streetcar Line
The New Year has proven to be an inauspicious beginning for Beijing's brand-new streetcar line after a streetcar on the Xijiao Line suffered multiple malfunctions. Worse still: the incident occurred...
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Beijing Now Offers 6-Day Visa-Free Stays to International Tourists
Beijing looks to attract more international travelers by extending visa-free entry for people transiting through the city to a full six days.International visitors can now apply for a...
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Back For More: Post-Renovations, Transit’s Upscale Take on Sichuan Cuisine...
Swanky Taikooli North used to play second fiddle to its more accessible relative to the south, but in 2017 a couple of popular new openings, including Restaurant Y and Baker & Spice, have started...
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Deal Beer Brings Craft Beers, and Beer and Gin Cocktails to Jiaodaokou
2017 was a sad year for small business in Beijing, especially in the hutongs, where many of our favorite go-to hotspots were bricked up. And as most proprietors are fleeing those once vibrant alleys,...
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Beijing Beats: Headhunterz at One Third, Joe Nice at Dada, Pillow Fight at...
Beijing Beats brings you the best in Beijing nightlife each weekend so that you can soothe the woes of a long and stressful week with some out-of-body gyrating and some experiences you'd rather forget...
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Believe It or Not: Beijing's Air Quality Improved Drastically in 2017
Contrary to everything we know as grizzled veterans outfitted with face masks and a wary disposition, the latest news tells us that Beijing's air quality improved so much over the course of 2017 that...
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2017 Year in Review: China's Best New Bands and Those to Listen Out For in 2018
Alright! Time to hand out some accolades to the bands that made the past year of gig going a treat. Not the esteemed bands who plowed through another year or in some cases proved themselves worthy...
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Are ‘Little Fresh Meat’ Actors Helping Propaganda Films?
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at China Film Insider.Long gone are the days where tough guys like Jackie Chan and Donnie Yen dominated the Chinese box office, in their place, an array...
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8 Easy Ways to Reduce Your Waste Footprint in 2018
January is a time for resolutions but this year, rather than just personal betterment, why not consider a resolution with a slightly wider scope – the whole planet, say?As we go about our daily lives...
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Throwback Thursday: A Look at Beijing's Bad Hair Days
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.New Year is a time for renewal and...
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What’s Up in Beer: Great Leap x Slow Boat, New Arrow Brews, and Beer...
Hey beer lovers, welcome to the first beery blog of 2018! If you've vowed to undertake Dry January this is probably the wrong thing to be reading right now, but we don't blame you for being curious –...
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Noise Pollution: Spit-Tunes, Billy Branch, The Chameleons, Wang Juan, The...
How’s 2018 treating you so far? Been following up or those meaty New Year resolutions? Or you think we should postpone till the Chinese New Year? Don’t worry. It’s ok. We all can’t be heroes. What we...
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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson Rolls Into Beijing, Pumps Iron in CBD
Can you smell what The Rock is cooking? Guomao certainly could this morning, as the wrestler and extremely well-paid Hollywood star posted an Instagram clip in which he pumped iron at Hotel Jen's...
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Retail Explosion: Thousands of Convenience Stores, Dozens of Hema Markets...
The retail industry is looking to target Beijing's vast market by opening thousands of new convenience stores and dozens of Alibaba-affiliated supermarkets in the near future.Alibaba announced...
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Confucius Says Ease Off the New Year's Resolutions, According to Author...
Our bustling modern Beijing lives could use a bit of good old-fashioned Daoist chill, at least according to Edward Slingerland. The author and academic argues that ancient Chinese culture espoused a...
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Showstart Honors Best Bands of 2017 With Live Power Awards and 3 Days of...
Over the past few years, Taihe Music Group (TMG) has grown to become one of the largest music companies in China, essentially integrating the music industry's upstream and downstream resources through...
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