Hotel Kapok is Beijing's only boutique-style hotel.

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In 2008, he left behind his Cape Cod style home overlooking the Bay and rented an apartment in Beijing to catch the next big trend.

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Beijing simply has more people who can appreciate the "web life-style, " as Gates calls it.

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When an American-style drive-in movie theatre opened in the north-eastern outskirts of Beijing in 1998, it was tempting to imagine young urban Chinese using their new cars as a tool for dating.

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Guan Kaiyuan, a 22-year-old law student at the China Institute of Industrial Relations in Beijing, had pointed out that Prof Kong's self-composed Tang Dynasty-style poem on his microblog did not rhyme correctly.

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Last month, Beijing announced a recruitment drive to attract 200 scientists from abroad with the promise of western-style salaries.

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Two examples are the Beijing Chicken roll with sea food sauce (similar to Beijing duck, a traditional Chinese dish) and Spicy Diced Chicken (resembling a popular Sichuan-style dish).

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