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Beijing holidays

January 2020

  • Monisha looking out a train window in China

    ‘The Godfather of trains’: the Trans-Mongolian from Moscow to Beijing

    For the author of Around the World in 80 Trains this was a standout journey, full of captivating encounters that could only happen on a train

October 2016

  • Beijing bird

    Insider's guides
    An insider's guide to Beijing: caged birds, smog and internet satire

    China’s capital is home to nearly as many people as the entire population of Australia. Concrete sprawl might be prevalent but so too are buckwheat pancakes, traditional theatres and oases filled with birdsong

May 2016

  • Street scene Beijing

    Cities on Instagram
    Beijing streetlife at night – in pictures

    From family boxing to food markets, Jens Schott Knudsen’s pictures of the Chinese capital after dark capture life in its streets and alleyways

March 2016

  • The Changbaishan resort is China’s top ski destination

    China’s ski industry is set to soar following Olympic win

    With the 2022 Winter Olympics coming to Beijing, the government is on a mission to get the nation on the slopes – and the growing number of ski resorts is testament to the intiative’s success

October 2015

  • A young woman in Beijing offers flags, stickers and hairpins in national colours to people gathering near Tiananmen Gate to celebrate National Day.

    Communist party theme park sparks ridicule among Chinese internet users

    Online community scorns use of taxpayers’ money to bankroll ‘brainwashing’ theme park in Wuhan marking foundation of People’s Republic of China

September 2015

  • China bar cocktails

    Spotlight on commodities
    Bathtub booze and knock-off whisky: inside China's fake alcohol industry

    Drinkers are unwittingly knocking back fake alcohol brewed in bathtubs, which could lead to potentially serious health issues
  • A construction site on the 68th storey of a building in Shenyang, China.

    Why India should reject China's obsession with bigger, denser megacities

    Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava
    In the urbanisation race, India seems desperate to catch up with China. Yet this highly networked country can build a future where cities do not rule supreme
  • 140x84 trailpic for Ai Weiwei Beijing

    The artist and their city
    Ai Weiwei on Beijing: 'It's a prison for freedom of speech' - video

    A Guardian Cities / Tate special series Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was born in Beijing but spent the first 18 years of his life in exile with his family. He now lives and works in the capital, far from the centre but under constant surveillance. In the first of this new series of short films, he offers a unique insight into the artists’ community he helped build in Caochangdi – and reveals his playful techniques for carving out a space in ‘a city that doesn’t really belong to its residents’

August 2015

  • ibirapuera parque

    The 10 best ...
    The 10 best parks

    From steamy Sao Paolo to breezy Buffalo – via Birkenhead on Merseyside – here are some of the world’s very best urban green spaces

July 2015

  • 140x84 trailpic for Beijing will host Winter Olympics 2022 video

    Beijing will host Winter Olympics 2022, announces IOC – video

  • tom gilbert and david cook having lunch in manchester

    Summer food & drink special 2015: let's do lunch
    Working lunches around the world: what's in your lunchbox?

May 2015

  • Chimneys rising above the skyline of Baoding, Hebei province, some 140 km south of Beijing early on March 10, 2013.

    Urban China
    Welcome to Baoding, China's most polluted city

  • People wear masks as protection against acrid smog in Beijing.

    Beijing snuffs out suburban barbecues in pre-Olympic smog fight

April 2015

  • The Old Beijing Stock Exchange was built in 1918. A light-filled, two-story gallery surrounded by wooden pilasters sits in the centre of the building.

    A history of cities in 50 buildings
    Beijing's old stock exchange – a history of cities in 50 buildings, day 17

    The former Beijing stock exchange behind Tiananmen Square has survived China’s whirlwind change to tell an important story of the city’s development

October 2014

  • Bookshop Leakey's, in Inverness

    Books blog
    Weird and wonderful bookshops worldwide – in pictures

    From a Canadian bookshop opened by Alice Munro in the 1960s to one in the island of Santorini started by drunk Oxford students, some of the world’s most exotic booksellers feature in The Bookshop Book, published as part of a UK-wide Books are My Bag campaign to support the bookselling industry in the run-up to Christmas. Its author Jen Campbell introduces some of the finest

September 2014

  • Beijing subway

    Cities in motion
    Riding Beijing's subway end to end: 88km of queues and crushes on a 20p ticket

  • Night scene of CBD Beijing

    The Soviet city is dead: long live Beijing

October 2013

  • Future perfect? … China Central Television headquarters in Beijing, as imagined by North Korean propaganda painters.

    Architecture and design blog
    Propaganda artists from North Korea paint a rose-tinted China

  • Mobile logos … an itinerant graphic design service is one of the projects launched in Beijing's historic Dashilar neighbourhood this week.

    Architecture and design blog
    Designers use 'urban acupuncture' to revive Beijing's historic hutongs

February 2013

  • Buddha statues with a variety of faces, shapes and unique character

    In pictures: Lunar New Year celebrations

    The Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, which is based on the lunisolar Chinese calendar, is celebrated from the first day of the first month of the lunar year and ends with Lantern Festival on the 15th day

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