What is buzz?

Instead of traditional ranking, Buzz is what City Weekend uses to help reveal what's popular in the city. It takes into account what real users like. If Buzz is high, then the item is popular in the city. To see the most Buzz worthiest listings, events, classifieds or people by their Buzz, click "Buzz" below.

How can you increase Buzz?

Buzz is based on many factors; most have to do with how much activity the item has caused on the site. Here are some easy tips to get Buzz higher:

• Add some photos
• Share it with friends
• Add a comment or review

• Most importantly, make your content as interesting as you can so others do the same

The Last Days of Old Beijing

• View all images (1)
• Add an image

• Share with a friend
• Add a comment
• Report corrections or abuse

Contributor
Description

The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed, with author Michael Meyer

RMB 65, includes a drink

As the world’s attention turns to Beijing, join us for a fascinating, intimate portrait of the imperial city through the lens of its oldest neighborhood, facing destruction as the city, and China, relentlessly modernizes.

A longtime resident, Meyer has, for the past two years, lived in a shared courtyard home in Beijing's oldest neighborhood, Dazhalan. Immersed in the life of the community, he tells the life stories of its residents as together, they face the changes of 21st century Beijing. There’s the Widow, who shares his courtyard; co-teacher Miss Zhu and student Little Liu; and the migrants Recycler Wang and Soldier Liu. Throughout, Meyer weaves historical vignettes of Beijing over a thousand years through the narrative.

Contributed by alavin

5 months, 2 weeks ago

City Weekend
says

Join author Michael Meyer for an intimate portrayal of the nation's capital city, a look at its oldest neighborhoods which face destruction as the city modernizes. Meyer has spent the last two years living in a shared courtyard home in Dazhalan, Beijing's oldest neighborhood, and has immersed himself in the community. "The Last Days of Old Beijing" tells the life stories of residents interwoven with historical narratives. RMB65 includes a drink