Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng

The beekeepers from Huáng Shān in Ānhuī Province and elsewhere arrive in Běijīng’s leafy west from the late spring, when the scholar trees that cover the hillsides start to flower, and you may well see them sitting at…

河北省, 走八达岭高速,京张高速, 离北京市中心132公里
Little-known and little-restored former post town northwest of Běijīng
Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of Běijīng Suburbs and Beyond

门头沟, 离西五环走G109往西62公里
Well-preserved Míng-era village on ancient trade route west of Běijīng
Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of Běijīng Suburbs and Beyond

Finding English-language maps and atlases in Běijīng
Part of A Better Guide to Beijing’s Practical A-Z

The Chinese were among the earliest known map-makers and by the 2nd century maps of most major settlements had been produced using principles set…

门头沟区东南部潭柘山
Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of Běijīng Suburbs and Beyond

There’s an unpleasant start, passing the corpse of the Capital Iron and Steel Works, once Běijīng’s biggest polluter, and accompanying chemical plants and other…

Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of Běijīng Suburbs and Beyond

The construction of vast mausolea ensured that the Míng and Qīng emperors had in death accommodation nearly as luxurious as that they had in life. The main halls echo the central palaces…

北三环西路甲31号
Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of Northwest Beyond the Zoo

The temple is described in Juliet Bredon’s Peking of 1931:

房山区周口店. 京石高速,京周路 S317 往西
Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of Běijīng Suburbs and Beyond

Homo erectus pekinensis took shelter in the caves here more than half a million years ago…

紫竹院路
Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of Northwest Beyond the Zoo

This park is worth mentioning mainly because it’s a pleasant way to walk to or from the Wànshòu Sì, although otherwise it’s little different from many other…

丰台区黄土岗乡郭公庄南, 世界公园旁边
Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of Běijīng Suburbs and Beyond