As part of its drive to become a world city, Beijing has been studying itself recently but the latest bout of introspection comes through the eyes of foreigners in a photo exhibition entitled Impressions of Beijing.
The city's auction industry is enjoying a record-breaking year and things look set to get even better with major auction houses announcing plans for more high-profile sales.
New York-based graffiti artist Chris Ellis - who goes by the street name Daze - has a graffiti exhibition in Beijing, as local media have reported.
When people living outside of Beijing think about the capital, two different sets of images come readily to mind. One consists of historic palaces, temples and buildings - notably the Forbidden City and old hutong alleys. The other images are of the sleek, modern office and apartment towers symbolizing the new Beijing.
It was an intriguing spectacle for shoppers at Carrefour's Fangzhuang branch last Saturday morning: teams of international and Chinese volunteers clustered at the entrance and exit, handing out flyers and asking shoppers to buy extra food.
In Beijing, a city where a 100-square-meter flat is considered "spacious", few people are lucky enough to expand into anything bigger and almost no one gets the luxury of unused space. That is what Liu Jia, CEO of Jiamei Dental, experiences every day. Living with his wife, Liu has a house that far, far exceeds 100 sq m - with more than 1,000 sq m of living space, it has twice as much land again.
When Zhao Jing decides to take an album of photo keepsakes, she decided to go to a studio where she can choose to be an opera diva. She wanted more than just a fashion lookbook, she wanted something that would dovetail into her interest in traditional Chinese culture.
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