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东三环北路
Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of North and East of the Imperial City

The museum is set well back behind the Agriculture Exhibition Hall, south of the Great Wall Sheraton Hotel.

后圆恩寺胡同13号
Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of North and East of the Imperial City

Another small but homely museum for collectors of courtyard houses (sìhéyuàn), this one is less luxurious than that of Méi…

东三环中路
Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of North and East of the Imperial City

西裱褙胡同23号
Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of North and East of the Imperial City

Officially listed for preservation and now hugely restored or rebuilt, this small temple, on the south side of Jiànguó Mén Nèi…

交道口南大街府学胡同63号
Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of North and East of the Imperial City

This is an ancient counterpart to the hagiographic museums of communism’s saints. Versions vary, but Wén Tiānxiáng…

Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng

Out of all the myriad monuments and ancestral halls that were once sprinkled across Běijīng, it’s instructive to note that shrines to resisters of foreigners have been those not only most likely to…

禄米仓胡同5号
Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of North and East of the Imperial City

The temple also houses the Běijīng Culture Exchange Museum (北京文博交流馆, Běijīng Wénbó Jiāoliúguǎn), but this amounts only to a rather superficial display in the…

日坛北路16号
Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of North and East of the Imperial City

This is another of the Míng Jiājìng emperor’s altars, this time to the Sun, and far smaller in scale than that at either the Temple of Heaven or even Dì…

东四南大街13号
Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of North and East of the Imperial City

There are Islamic communities in most of China’s major cities made up of Huí — Chinese descendants of Arab traders now largely indistinguishable…