City Weekend was a free, bi-weekly entertainment event and venue listing magazine based out of China.
[1][2] Its on-line edition was both autonomous and complementary to the print magazine — City Weekend was "reader-powered" and sources most of its information directly from the expat community.
Founded in 1999, City Weekend created content related to dining, nightlife, arts, culture, health and wellness, fashion and shopping, local community news, and travel in the English language.
[5] Staff relied on its reader-powered website to access local communities and generated everything from national articles to factual news about local events, venues, and classified ads in China's two largest cities — Beijing and Shanghai (and for a brief period Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Suzhou).
In 2010, City Weekend launched an English-language group buying platform called FlashBuy, the first one of its kind targeting English speakers in both Beijing and Shanghai.