All Stories published by A Better Guide to Beijing on October 25, 2016

White Dagoba Temple 白塔寺

阜成门内大街171号
Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng
’s coverage of West of the Imperial City

The site is more correctly known as the Miàoyīng Sì (妙应寺), or Temple of the Miraculous Response, but the white Tibetan-style dagoba at the rear, in the…


Lǔ Xùn Museum 鲁迅博物馆

阜成们内宫门口二条19号
Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng
’s coverage of West of the Imperial City

Lǔ Xùn (the pen name of Zhōu Shùrén, 周树人, 1881–1936) is a contender for the title of China’s greatest modern writer and has the extremely rare distinction…


Altar of the Moon 月坛

南礼士路
Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng
’s coverage of West of the Imperial City

The Altar of the Moon was part of the Jiājìng emperor’s expansion of ceremonial in the 1530s. Ceremonies took place at the autumn equinox, with the emperor…