It was the first shopping mall that came close to a western standard on the Chinese mainland. The giant centre is located between Beijing's West Third and Fourth Ring roads. Open: 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Tel: + 86 10 8887 5888 Address: north of Yuan...

Beijing is one of my favorite cities because it offers the best of two of my favorite pastimes, shopping and eating. The trip is long, but take a few guidebooks to read en route and dream of all the money you will save in the markets. Walki...

Beijing Curio City is the first nationally supervised second-hand market in China, and the biggest Asian center of the curio trade. With more than 250 curio shops under one roof, the market specializes in antique pottery, paintings from Chi...

Liulichang is a small street lined with shops facades bearing Ming and Qing dynasty architectural features. With brightly painted doors and eaves and gracefully curved black-tiled-roofs buildings, a little of old Beijings lifestyle is retai...

On the eastern side of the Embassy of the United States, you will find a couple of narrow lanes jammed with human traffic. That is the Silk Market, which is also known as Silk Alley or OK Street, but it has much more than just silk to offer...

Another large antiques market can be found at Panjiayuan. This is a multi-sectioned covered shopping area, which is full of antiques, art, books and general kitsch. From works of Chinese calligraphy and paintings, the four treasures of the...

This market is located in the south central area of Beijing, just to the east of the Temple of Heaven. It is an indoor mall with a seafood market in the basement and about 3 floors up. It is filled mainly with cheap electronic goods like po...

The Xiu Shui market reopened for business in its shiny new 5 storey shopping mall on March 19th 2005 (or thereabouts) replacing the infamous original outdoor Xiu Shui market. In doing so, it has become the inner city's one stop tourist shop...

Xi Dan is a very large shopping area and often frequented by real Beijing residents. Here you can find all kinds of things and almost no specially for tourists fare. The main focus of the area is 5 or 6 giant malls. These are very old fashi...

Wangfujing street and its surroundings have quite a selection of shopping options. There are two western style, modern malls. One has an English name written on it saying Sun Dong An, which is confusing because its Chinese name is Xin Dong...