Nightlife and entertainment
Beijing's nightlife and entertainment scene has now recovered from the moral clampdown following the Communist takeover, when the restrictive definitions of the state meant that "bourgeois" bars and tea houses disappeared...
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Shopping
Beijing has a good reputation for shopping , with the widest choice of anywhere in China. Clothes are particularly inexpensive, and are one reason for the city's high number of Russians, as smuggling them across the northern border...
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