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Raising the steaks
The best news in a long time for genuine meat lovers in the Chinese capital is possibly the recent opening of Meat & Wine Co, which is best known for its prime cuts, served with great wines.
Grate taste
The comfortable-looking cream-colored cushioned seats at Yellow Stone (黄玉石西餐厅) perfectly complement the bountiful natural sunlight streaming in through the French windows.
Beijing Listing:Concerts, stage and exhibitions
What's on in Beijing:Stage,concerts and exhibitions
Wheels in motion
Dressed in red, his hair set with styling gel, Wang Tao wheels forward and backward to the rhythmic strains of samba music. He pauses, places one hand on his standing partner and stretches out the other.
An Oscar winner's quirky take on film festivals
Imagine a film festival without a red carpet, jury, journalists or celebrities in designer dresses, but instead with beanbags on the floor, homemade cakes and little blue lights mimicking stars on the ceiling.
A great 20th century writer, as depicted in movies spanning 60 years
It is only fitting that Eileen Chang should be a favorite with filmmakers across generations. Among her early works were film reviews for an English-language newspaper in Shanghai.
Reviews:《Jia thinks》,《My memoir of youth》,《How we decide》
Book reviews:《Jia thinks》,《My memoir of youth》,《How we decide》
History in the making
With the emergence of new buildings like the CCTV Tower, Bird's Nest and T3, Beijing is metamorphosing into a modern city at an unprecedented speed.
Chang reveals all
What kind of book can be called an author's "strip-dance"? Eileen Chang, the writer of Lust, Caution, on which Ang Lee based his award-winning opus, gave an answer in her newly published autobiographical novel.
Hotel listings in Beijing
More than 130 American tourists gathered at the Quanjude Peking Roast Duck Restaurant's Qianmen branch.It was the biggest tourist group at the restaurant since it reopened after a major revamp in August 2008.