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Chinese Sci-Fi Author Hao Jingfang Nominated For Hugo Award For 'Folding...
Hao Jingfang, 32 years old and born in Tianjin, is the second Chinese author to have her book nominated for a Hugo Award. Her novelette, Folding Beijing was nominated.The Hugos recognize the best...
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Margot Robbie and Alexander Skarsgård Visit Beijing For China Premiere of...
Actors Alexander Skarsgård and Margot Robbie are in town to promote The Legend of Tarzan (泰山归来：险战丛林), a new version of the ape-man saga, which is set to open here on July 19.The 39-year-old Swedish...
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Polish Food Week at Feast Brings Homecooked Polish Food to Beijing, Jul 18-22
Polish cuisine is one of the most unappreciated and certainly one of the most underrepresented cuisines in Beijing, and the world. Help is on the way courtesy of Feast (Food by East)'s International...
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Forbidden City Sips: Atmosphere's New Cocktails Are Deeply Steeped in Chinese...
Call him Beijing’s cocktail tour guide. “On a clear day you can see the Forbidden City from here,” said Attila Balint, gesturing at the picture window of the China World Summit Wing's eightieth floor...
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So Long, Sucker: Swatting the Myths About Mosquitoes in Beijing
Summer in Beijing: time to get out the T-shirts and shorts, and enjoy the sunshine. But beware, there are bloodsuckers about ... All that exposed skin just presents a feast for mosquitoes, as they wake...
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Stat: 11 Million International Arrivals Came to Beijing Last July
There were 10,921,500 international arrivals who came to enjoy summer in our fair city last July, a whopping 2.9 percent increase on last year’s tourism influx, according to the China National Tourism...
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D-One: The Den's First Descendant Emerges
When The Den closed earlier this year, there was great wailing and gnashing of teeth, as Beijing’s longest-operating, single-location bar finally passed into history. Immediately, the question emerged,...
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Forbidden City Announces Plan to Open 75 Percent of Palace to Public by End 2016
While it cracked Conde Nast Traveler’s list of the 50 Most Beautiful Places in Asia, many people consider the Forbidden City to be a one-way monolith of calculated sameness, like Ikea without the...
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NEXTDoc Film Festival at The Bookworm
Fourteen documentary films created by ethnic Chinese filmmakers from Los Angeles, New York, London, as well as Mainland China and Hong Kong are screening at The Bookworm between now and August 1 as...
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Hutong Fusion Food: Albion Brings High-End Eats to Zhangzizhong Lu
From fizzy soups, to pâté filled mini ice cream cones, there's no shortage of creative dishes being served at Albion Chef's Table. Opened last week by a young chef named Maxim Cheng – who trained and...
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Nibbles and Sips: July/August Edition
As always, Beijing’s summer is when the city’s food and beverage industry undergoes a sort of revival, with restaurants and bars popping up all over the place, and innovation reaching peak levels.These...
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Going to the Dogs: Kombucha Yappy Hour at Xian Bar, Jul 23
On Saturday July 23, all dog owners and their fluffy friends are invited to join Xian Bar on their terrace for Yappy Kombucha Hour from 5-8pm, sponsored by Papp’s Tea Lab and Penny’s Food Studio.Canine...
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Tsingtao Opens Its Own Bar in Galaxy Soho With IPA (Occasionally) on Tap and...
As the second largest and well-known mass-produced brewery in China, Tsingtao is obviously no longer satisfied just to sell bottles far and wide to domestic and overseas audiences, expanding its empire...
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Heavier Rainstorms Ahead, Beijing Issues Orange Weather Warning
Yesterday, the government issued a blue weather warning, denoting that there would be “localized and sudden instances of torrential rain,” which we're only just seeing the full effects of and led to...
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'Star Trek Beyond' Coming to Chinese Cinemas on Sep 2
Star Trek Beyond (星际迷航3：超越星辰), the third instalment in Paramount's rebooted sci-fi series, is coming to Chinese cinemas on September 2.While obviously that’s good news for China-based Trekkies, it’s...
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Purchase Discounted Tickets For Aug 6-7's International Foodie Weekend
In two-and-a-half week’s time, Sanlitun will bear witness to the single greatest food spectacle the city of Beijing has dared to take a bite out of. No baloney! The second International Foodie Weekend...
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Street Eats: Street Food Dinner Tour With Authentic Jianbing, Chuan'r, and...
After reading about the whole gamut of our previously covered street eats, such as cheesy toast, trotters, fried chicken fillet, beer burger, jianbing burrito, and egg tarts, do you secretly wish that...
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Crowd Control: How to Practice Situational Awareness and Stay Safe in Beijing
By all accounts, Beijing is a safe city. According to the 2015 Crime and Safety Report published by the US Department of State’s Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC), the most common incidents are...
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China Box Office: ‘Tarzan’ Swings to First Place, CFI Review of Jackie Chan’s...
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at China Film Insider.Warner Bros.’ The Legend of Tarzan received a rare July release date on Tuesday and made the best of the depressed summer...
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Feast Your Eyes on the Foodie Weekend's Eats (and Save With a 40 percent...
With 67 vendors (you read that right, sixty-seven) already signed on for the Beijinger's International Foodie Weekend on August 6-7 at Sanlitun Soho, the event of the year (food-related or not) will be...
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