Beijing is the place where dreams come true ... leading them to question just where they stand in such a city. Will they find the career and partner of their dreams or have to make a choice ...

And further west in Gulou, Dada is a sticky-floored Beijing institution and a mecca for the city’s hippest clubbers ... foreigners, young, old, trendies, rock lovers, office workers.

How many hutongs are there in Beijing? Old local residents ... A curfew was enforced at night. Youzhou was renamed Xijunfu in the Liao Dynasty and the city was divided into 26 residential districts.