How does Beijing's nightlife compare to Shanghai?

Shanghai has way more French.  Beijing, while it has the classy, blow-all-your-parents-money-on-gigantic-bottles-of-unpourable-Chivas places, also has a bigger selections of dive bars, pubs, neighborhood joints, and hutong bars.  Beijing also seems to have more bars that attract almost an exclusively Chinese clientele where no one speaks English.   Beijing's got a pretty active rock scene, if that's your thing.    Wudaokou is the student area, San Li Tun is a mixture of upscale, down scale, no scale, and "are they really going to do that right here in the open?" scene.  Gongti's got the sort of big dance club scene if your into that.  Gongti north gate has clubs that cater more to the foreign scene, west gate a more local scene, and east gate has a weird restaurant-club mix scene.   Dongcheng, Gu Lou, and the hutongs are were the (in)famous hutong hipsters hang out...this is where you'll get your decent rock shows and overpriced PBR's.  If your into chick with tats and 80's leather jackets, this is it.    Ritan area has Russian nightlife.  Don't get in fights with Russians, but Russian food is surprisingly (for me!) good/cheap here.   Wangjing/Wudaokou has Japanese and Korean joints.  If your into bombing soju and Suntory highballs on tap, do it here.   Houhai and Huguosi have bars that seem to attract Chinese/tourists.    If you're into a more "Chinese" experience, in summer time anyplace that can fit 3 tables and a keg becomes a sort of outdoor BBQ beer garden type john called a "dapaidang (大排档）."  Drinkwise, expect nothing but 'jing（燕京）, qingdao, and the incomparable Baijiu, though you can BYOB (go haerbies and Jingjiu!), so go wild.    For a more bougie, I'm here with my wife and kids type vibe, Xingfucun and Lido have bars/restaurants for people here on the expat package.  They speaka da foreign here, so if the long days and nights of being babied and pampered by the over hospitable Shanghaiiese has made you go soft and lose your Chinar mojo, hit these places up for a more "expat bubble" scene.   Theres other places scattered throughout the city so take your pick.  The sort of classic "one night in Beijing" normally starts in Sanlitun, and if it achieves enough escape velocity, makes its way to Gongti beimen, and then ends in shame, regret and confusion.  Anyways dude, quit asking people online and just hop in the high speed and see for yourself.