Water from Rear Lake has been diverted through an underground channel into a stream that winds its way through the garden. This lovely Beijing garden is elegantly laid out with rockeries and ponds ...

Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe published an op-ed in Project Syndicate last week maintaining that Chinese power is increasingly transfiguring the South China Sea into “Lake Beijing.” ...

Beihai, situated in the center of Beijing, was the pleasure palace of ... at which time Beihai (North Lake) and Qionghua (Jade) Islet (the present site of the Whiter Dagoba) were incorporated ...

One of Beijing’s best Peking duck restaurants ... or Front Lake; Houhai, or Rear Lake; and Xihai, or West Lake. The tree-lined bodies of water were once part of the emperor’s gardens, and ...