The Beijinger Magazine
2011 Sep 27 Ten Years Of the Beijinger: A Word From Michael Wester

Truth be told, we never imagined Beijing would move so fast.
Ten years ago, when editorial director Jerry Chan and I traipsed the smoggy streets of Beijing seeking a space for our fledgling office, we lived in a very different city.
Beijing hadn’t yet won its Olympic bid. The city’s subway system consisted of two lines that effectively went nowhere. Houhai was a rustic getaway unsullied by bar touts, and entire areas of town such as Nanluogu Xiang, Dashanzi and Shuangjing were virtually terra incognita to all but a handful of foreigners. Sanlitun South Bar Street’s network of hole-in-the-wall dives lined up along an unpaved road was still the epicenter of Beijing’s social scene (and RMB 50 would be more than enough get you drunk and leave change for ten lamb kebabs to boot).
Read more...2012 Feb 06 Free Stuff For Readers! Fantastic Prizes Up For Grabs

Do you like winning things? All you need to do is to find this month’s issue of the Beijinger and answer some questions correctly. You can earn yourself a Valentine’s Day dinner for two at Compass Grill (worth RMB 999) , or a Valentine’s Day dinner at Kerry’s Kitchen (worth RMB 688). Enter to win both but remember that you'll only win one, you can't physically be at two places at the same time. Not with Beijing traffic. And there's even more you can win ...
Read more...2012 Feb 01 Out Now - the Beijinger - February 2012: We Heart Beijing

Love is … in the air, although you might not be able to see it among the particulate matter.
Who do we want to be our Valentine? Take a guess.
We Heart Beijing. How do we love thee? In our Cover Feature we count the ways.
Read more...2012 Jan 31 Enter The Dragon Caption Competition - Day 4!

We're well aware three days into this work week that we're not on holiday but everyone seems to like these caption contests. Let's have some more fun with this one. All you have to do to win something drawn at random from our prize cupboard is create a caption for the above photo. Leave it as a comment below. The best - as in the one that we like the most - will be determined the winner. The competition is open until we can open the prize cupboard. Good luck. Winners will be picked by the end of this week ... and there really are prizes to be won.
Read more...2012 Jan 31 Win a Free OSPOP Bag From Plastered T-shirts!

By now you’ve likely heard that Plastered T-shirts has opened a second Beijing branch in 798 Art District. (If not, catch up on all the details here.) Now we have even more photos of the store interior which, according to their blog, was designed by founder Dominic Johnson-Hill himself.
Read more...2012 Jan 29 Enter The Dragon Caption Competition - Day 3!

While everyone's still on holiday (if you are lucky enough to not be in work today) we thought we'd let you have some fun and give you the chance to win some prizes. All you have to do to win something drawn at random from our prize cupboard is create a caption for the above photo. Leave it as a comment below. The best - as in the one that we like the most - will be determined the winner. The competition is open until everyone's back at work on Monday. Good luck. Winners will be picked as soon as we tire of deleting a week's worth of email spam.
Read more...2012 Jan 26 Enter The Dragon Caption Competition - Day 2!

While everyone's still on holiday we thought we'd let you have some fun and give you the chance to win some prizes. All you have to do to win something drawn at random from our prize cupboard is create a caption for the above photo. Leave it as a comment below. The best - as in the one that we like the most - will be determined the winner. The competition is open until we're all back at work on Sunday. Good luck.
Read more...2012 Jan 25 Enter The Dragon Caption Competition!

While everyone's still on holiday we thought we'd let you have some fun and give you the chance to win some prizes. All you have to do to win something drawn at random from our prize cupboard is create a caption for the above photo. Leave it as a comment below. The best - as in the one that we like the most - will be determined the winner. The competition is open until we're all back at work on Sunday. Good luck.
Read more...2012 Jan 23 Year of the Dragon: Back to the Drawing Board

We had so much fun making our zodiac-themed live-action dragon comic that we wanted to share a little more of it with you during the holiday. Here's some more behind-the-scenes fun: our favorite sketches from the storyboards that started it all.
Read more...2012 Jan 22 Year of the Dragon: The Making of a Legend

Happy New Year of the Dragon! We had a heck of a time making our annual live-action comic strip so we decided to give you a look behind the scenes. These candid snaps don't show much evidence of our arguments, tears and nagging fear that we'd get arrested, but we hope they do give you an idea of the nonsense that we went through in an attempt to put a smile on your lovely faces. Enjoy your holiday – we'll be spending ours trying to procure a snake for this time next year.








