Beijing, with its vast expanse of ring roads, cultural monuments, and inescapable smog, exudes its own brand of unique charm. “It’s a city of extremes,” Wanwan Lei, 28, a perennial It girl and ...

A vendor makes jianbing in her shop. Beijing is an unruly beast with ancient pride, memorable wounds and plenty of business plans to get on with. In the past four decades, millions of people poured in ...

The famous portrait of Mao Zedong still looks out over Beijing as though he's guarding communist austerity and discipline. But the Beijing he stares out upon is hardly the city he left behind. Change ...