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How Would You Improve Beijing? The City Wants Your Suggestions

As great as life in Beijing can be, there are times when the sky isn't so blue, it takes too long to get somewhere, and you may be wishing you'd rather be somewhere else. It's never popular to point...

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How to Use the Newly Bilingual Alipay as a Laowai

In 2015 we wrote a guide to setting up Alipay's Chinese app on your smartphone. Since then, WeChat Wallet has since become a ubiquitous medium for payment in Beijing – accepted by your local...

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Beijing Beats: Paula Temple, Neel, Fantastic Man, Club Paradise, Mardi Gras

Beijing Beats brings you the best in Beijing nightlife each weekend so that you can soothe the woes of a long a stressful week with some out-of-body gyrating and some experiences you'd rather forget...

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Base Fit Launches Home Grounds, Offering Creative, Healthy Dining Options

Fans of healthy and delicious foods (so pretty much everyone then) will be happy to learn that there's another new option in town: Home Grounds, from the team behind popular new gym, Base Fit. Located...

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"Rock to the Rescue" Animal Welfare Concert to Be Held at Modernista, Mar 4

It'll be an event fun enough to leave a pup panting and its tail wagging. Rock to the Rescue, slated to take place at Modernista on March 4, will feature performances by popular local bands like The...

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Cheer on Beijing Women's Basketball as They Play for Their Third Championship...

Don't miss out on a historic moment for local women's sports as Silvia Fowles and the Beijing Great Wall play against the Bayi Kylins for the WCBA championship this evening.Leading the best-of-five...

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Beijing in Brief 3/2: City Leads World in Billionaires and Public Toilet...

Every time the sun sets on the Beijinger's editorial offices, we lament the fact that there's still so much we never got to that day. So we're testing out an evening column in which we summarize the...

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Cleveland Punks Cloud Nothings Will Compel You to Pogo at Modernsky Lab, Apr 14

Beijing music fans' hearts sank when gig promoter Split Works' plans to bring indie rock darling Angel Olsen to the Mainland recently fell through. And while concert cancellations are par for the...

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Could You Be the Next WildChina Explorer? Win USD 5,000 to Realize Your China...

Do you spend every free afternoon at your desk scrolling through Instagram and daydreaming about your next adventure? Do you read guide books precisely so you can avoid their recommendations? Do you...

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Noise Pollution: Fathoms, The fin., Braids, Vatican Ink, Ran Groove Vol. 4

With February just a distant memory its time to roll out the main course with a massive helping of gigs, showcases, and escapades on the menu this weekend. Electronic tomfoolery, big indie sounds out...

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With February in the Bag it Looks Like a Grim 2017 in Terms of Air Quality...

We're past the two-month mark for 2017. How are we doing on the government's pledge to improve the air this year?Not good.According to Ministry of Environmental Protection data for the city of Beijing,...

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Online Now!: Enjoy Spring Outdoors With the Beijinger March/April Issue

Congratulations. You’ve done it. You’ve survived yet another trying, bone-chilling, lung-polluting, skin-drying Beijing winter. We know that technically winter isn’t quite over yet, and there are...

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British Home Store Habitat Opens First Beijing Store in Parkview Green

British furniture and home decoration store Habitat has opened its first Beijing location in Parkview Green. Offering sofas (ringing in at a few thousand RMB), chairs, cupboards, bookshelves, as well...

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Flying Kangaroo Swoops in to Fill Godfathers' Shoes With Launch on Guanghua...

Few bars or restaurants successfully appeal to both locals and out-of-towners, but the Flying Kangaroo is hoping to do just that with a unique concept: the bar and restaurant's aviation theme is...

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What’s Up in Beer: Tiki Expands, Boxing Cat Bought Out, Beerio Kart at 8-Bit,...

Spring has embraced us gently this week, and as such we're gearing ready to spend a weekend hanging outside of our favorite beer venues (as long as the sun's out, that is). Here's where we'll be.First...

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Move Over, Imports: China's Top Selling Air Purifier is Made at Home by Xiaomi

As public awareness continues to increase over the dangers of air pollution, Chinese consumers have turned to home air purifiers for protection. But although foreign brands have traditionally been...

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Neat and Promising Two-Floor Chinese Brewpub Regain Element Opens on Wudaoying

Wudaoying is no stranger to bars, restaurants, and cafés looking to solidify their spot as the new in thing among the city's hipsters that frequent the quaint hutong. Regain Element, the newest of the...

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‘Logan’ Becomes First Film in China Affected by New Law

This post comes courtesy of our content partners at China Film Insider.Fox’s Logan has become the first film in China required by law to feature an age-restriction warning in its marketing material,...

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Beijing in Brief 3/4: More Foreign Students, 100 Billion In Spending = 1.8%...

Every time the sun sets on the Beijinger's editorial offices, we lament the fact that there's still so much we never got to that day. So we're testing out an evening column in which we summarize the...

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61% Support Plan to Relax Visas for Foreign Ladies to Solve China's Sex...

The combination of China's one-child policy and conservative social customs has resulted in a gender imbalance so great that for tens of millions of men, finding a marriage partner is soon to become...

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