Beijing · China
Beijing by neighborhood.
3 neighborhoods profiled, each written by an editor who's slept in a hotel there, eaten at the locals' spot, and sent postcards home.
Hutong (Dongcheng)
Beijing's narrow grey-brick alleys — the 600-year-old residential fabric that the city's modernisation spared
historiccourtyard-residentialwalkable
Sanlitun
Beijing's embassy-bar district — the post-1990s bar street, the Taikoo Li retail complex, and the city's expatriate anchor
modernexpat-orientednightlife
Wangfujing
Beijing's imperial shopping street — 700 years of commerce, walking-distance to the Forbidden City, and the city's most strategic tourist base
imperial-adjacentshoppingtourist-anchor