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The Place
This new Beijing landmark, with its striking projection screen, houses Spanish fashion chain Zara (the only Zara in Beijing) and Canadian shoe retailer Aldo’s flagship store. Expect all Major brands to have an branch store… more

Sanlitun Yashou Clothing Market, Clothing
Beijing’s best multi-floor clothing emporium. Five floors of all virtually anything you might need. Basement: shoes, handbags and suitcases. First floor: jackets. Second floor: hiking gear, suits and ladies… more

Xiushui Silk Market, Silk/Clothing
This market is awash with the silk-worm’s finest. You can also find top brand and designer labels such as Gucci, Burberry and North Face here. Bargaining is imperative, although it’s often a struggle with so many foreign… more

China World Shopping Mall
Adjacent to the first-rate China World Hotel, this is where Beijing’s well-heeled come to be seen shopping. It’s a lavish and potently snobbish display-the shops are usually devoid of customers, as many are alienated by its exclusivity… more

Ruifuxiang, Silk
Housed in a historic building on Dashilar, this is one of the best places in town to browse for silk. There’s an incredible selection of Shandong silk, brocade and satin-silk. It also has an outlet in the Sanlitun Yashou Clothing… more

Beijing Silk Store, Silk
This store near Ruifuxiang and off Qianmen Dajie is an excellent place to pick up quality silk fabric and ready-made clothes at low… more 

Lufthansa Center Youyi, Shopping Mall
The gigantic Lufthansa Center is a smart, well-stocked and long-established multi-level shopping mall. You can find most of what you need here, including several restaurants (Korean, German and Italian), and there are… more

Friendship Store, Department Store
The Friendship Store could be worth a perusal for its upstairs touristy junk and its ground floor books and magazine hide-out (excellent for coffee table titles and travel books on China), supermarket… more

Oriental Plaza, Shopping Mall
You could spend a day in this staggeringly large shopping mega-complex at the foot of Wangfujing Dajie. Prices might not be cheap, but window shoppers will be overjoyed. There’s a great range of shops and restaurants… more

Beijing Arts & Crafts Central, Arts & Crafts/Jade
This centrally located store (with a sign outside saying Artistic Mansion) is well known for its good selection of jade(with certificates of authenticity), jadeite, cloisonné vases, carpets and other Chinese arts and crafts. Jewellery… more

Flower & Bird Market, Flowers & Birds
Alive with a cornucopia of fauna and flora, this market seethes with pigeons, parrots, turtles, rabbits and all sorts of other birds, beasts and knick-knacks. You can find it off the southeast corner of the Temple of Heaven Park… more

Jingdezhen Ceramic City, Ceramics
Just off Wangfujing Dajie, this huge emporium is spread over several floors with displays of well-lit ceramics from the Jingdezhen kilns. Pieces are modern, but many works on view employ traditional decorative styles… more

Ten Fu’s Tea, Tea
This excellent shop has top-quality loose tea from all over China. Staff can line you up with a free tea tasting, and there are free tea ceremony demonstrations upstairs at the Dashilar branch. There is another branch at… more

Tong Ren Tang, Chinese Medicine
This famous, now international, herbal medicine shop has been pedding pills and potions since 1669. It was a royal dispensary in the Qing dynasty, and its medicines are based on secret prescriptions used by… more

Qianmen Carpet Company, Carpet
This store, just north of the Tiantan Hotel, stocks a good selection of handmade carpets and prayer rugs with natural dyes from Tibet, Xinjiang and… more

Xidan Bookshop, Books
The titles of this Beijing’s largest bookshop is largely Chinese, but there is a good range of English language titles in the basement. The gang of writers are hardly cutting edge, but there’s a smattering of modern pulp… more

Liulichang Cultural Street (Liulichang Wenhua Jie)
It’s antique shops area. A restored historic area of Beijing noted for antique hunting, arts, handicrafts and other traditional products of… more

Qianmen Street (Qianmen Dajie)
Qianmen-Dazhanlan commercial center in Beijing was built in Yuan dynasty. It has most of the historical shops, including the Tongshenghe Shoe Store, the Ruifuxiang Cloth Shop, the Duyichu Restaurant and the… more

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