Must see shopping in Forbidden City & Dongcheng Central

Such lovingly curated shelves! If only Beijing had more alleyway boutiques like this. Slow Lane tempts with Tibetan yak-wool blankets, ceramic teaware…

After decades of charmless development, this 2018 luxury shopping mall is at least trying to restore a little lost glamour to Wangfujing, once lined with…

Dominated at street level by its Apple store, this six-floor shopping mecca has the expected glut of fast fashion (Zara, H&M etc), cosmetics and…

A couple of decades has dulled the sheen of this corridor-like mega-mall built in 2000 at the southern end of Wangfujing Dajie. It contains midrange and…

They used to say that a truly dignified person would only wear shoes made by Neiliansheng, silk made by Ruifuxiang and hats made by Sheng Xi Fu. First…

English-speaking sales staff are adept at parting tourists from their cash in exchange for high-grade teas from around China, sold loose by the liǎng (50g…

Established in 1958, this state-run relic stocks a dog-eared selection of English-language fiction on the ground floor, past the display of works by…