Passion for fashion

“There are always tough times in life,” said Xiao Hui, lying in a cozy sofa, dressed up in a casual Dolce&Gabbana outfit, DIESEL jeans and Y-3 sneakers with a 2-carat Cartier diamond ring and a Louis Vuitton bracelet shining on his hands.

We strive to be a home for readers

The municipal government started it. Beijing Youth Daily Group kept it up. And now we, a group of young people in our 20s and early-30s, are the custodians of this paper, and it’s our objective to keep Beijing Today going strong.

Embassy use microblogs for grassroots diplomacy

The year 2010 will be remembered as the beginning of China’s Microblog Era. Leading Internet portals Sina, Sohu, NetEase and Tencent launched microblog services, and more than 20 percent of events were spread through microblogs or attracted nationwide or global attention through them.

Gung Ho! Pizza, starting small with a big blueprint

Gung Ho! Pizza had its share of publicity in expat publications when it opened last year, but many locals also called the restaurant for delivery when they saw reviews on a local food website.

Exploring new areas is fun

Last year, Mercedes-Benz invited six people to participate in an advertising campaign, “Chasing Your Dream,” for its E-series.

Tech geeks go social

In line with rapid technological advancements, geeks, who 10 years ago were social outcasts, have seen their reputations make an about-face. They’re now cool.

Renventing dead urban buildings – Hosteller’s quest to show off the real Beijing

Since the dawn of the millennium, the government has been committed to blind demolition in the name of urbanization, leveling hundreds of factories in the urban area. With these goes a part of our industrial heritage. Liu Ke, a designer wants to ensure some of these old factories survive the bulldozer of modernization by giving them a new function as public construction icons.

How expats survive in Beijing

We live in a city on its way to becoming an international metropolis and have watched our standard of living rise ever higher: it is hard to find Mao-suited locals cycling to work each morning.

German jounalist give advice to today’s youth in Beijing

Johnny Erling is a longtime Chinese resident who speaks great Chinese. A correspondent for the German publications Die Welt and Der Standar, he has been working in Beijing since 1998 and knows the capital inside and out.

Interpersonal communication the soul of the city

Last year, Michael Kahn-Ackermann, president of the Goethe-Institut China, moved into a block of old six-storied buildings. At first, his neighbors couldn’t understand why an expat would want to live in their building. After a while, they realized the German had been in Beijing on and off for 14 years since 1975 and was, in some ways, as local as they were.