
Photo: Colorful animals make it easy to identify the Tianyi wholesale market.
Beijing is a great place to shop, and there are plenty of options, from high-end malls to the myriad of markets. I much prefer the latter, which …

Photo: Colorful animals make it easy to identify the Tianyi wholesale market.
Beijing is a great place to shop, and there are plenty of options, from high-end malls to the myriad of markets. I much prefer the latter, which …
Lately I’ve been missing some of the quirkier aspects of living in Beijing, for example, the city’s vast lamp market, which was housed in three football-field-sized warehouses. There were lamps that I would buy for my home, to be sure, but of course the more interesting were those made depicting life-sized …
For expatriates in Beijing, life becomes easier by the month, if not the week. Change comes quickly here at a speed difficult to describe. New grocery stores with foods geared toward western …