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Find Hidden Treasure at 5 Little Known Beijing Markets |
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Monday, 08 March 2010 15:29 |
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Aside from eating, drinking and cavorting, shopping has to be one of the Beijing expat’s most favoured pursuits. There are miles of shiny marble-floored malls filled with couture boutiques with stylishly near empty shelves in Beijing, as well as tourist traps – ala Panjiayuan or Houhai – filled with the ubiquitous little red books and other China tour paraphernalia. Overlooked by many expats however, are the places that thousands of Chinese people shop every day. Beijing has a multitude of markets offering a cornucopia of wares from the downright cheap and practical to the beautiful, the bizarre and the kitsch. Beijing’s lesser known markets are colourful and chaotic places that many will just enjoy a visit to even if they are just window shopping. Have you ever wondered where you can buy a Louis Vuitton patterned dust pan and brush, or a USB powered foot warmer? If so, then read on. In fact, read on anyway; you may just learn of a place that sells that item that you have been hunting for in Beijing for quite some time. 
Photo: photo.blog.sina.com.cn
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Capital Cinema: 10 Little Known Movies about Beijing |
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Monday, 08 March 2010 15:17 |
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Live in China long enough and you start to forget that the closest most non-Chinese will ever get to China’s uber-urban areas and striking natural landscapes is movies portraying a country, and a people, that to most foreigners, even those of us lucky enough to live here, is still pretty mystifying. Beijing hasn’t been memorialized in the movies the way Shanghai has, and even as movies about China spread internationally – one paradox is that many of the movies about China most acclaimed abroad are banned within the country, a situation which doesn’t do much for dialogue or creating grounds for mutual understanding – most of them are historic epics and/or martial arts flicks, or gritty indie films that reach only select film circuit audiences. |
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Tuesday, 21 July 2009 13:42 |
Beijing Massage Guide  If you’re looking for a guide to massages in Beijing, you’ve come to the right place. First, let’s take a look at main kinds of massage venues available in Beijing: |
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How to get married in China as an expat |
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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 21 July 2009 08:06 |
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Nowadays, cross-nation marriages are usual in China. However, most new foreigners do not understand the procedures of getting married. Many of them will ask the same question: How can I get married in China? To answer this question, here are the procedures and steps for the cross-nation marriages( Sino-foreigner marriages).
Source: www.china.org.cn.
Note: The following only applies to Sino-foreign marriages. Local-level marriage registration offices are the governmental bodies responsible for legally uniting Chinese nationals under Chinese law.
Step 1: Submit the required documents
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Bargaining Tips in Beijing,China |
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Tuesday, 21 July 2009 06:20 |
| She Learns to Bargain in Beijing | Eileen Reagan, from Brooklyn, New York has had the wonderful opportunity of actually living in Beijing for an extended period of time. That meant she has had to learn the ground rules for shopping in a country that has elevated the act of bargaining to an absolute art. |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 July 2009 06:22 |
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