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A lamp and lightbulb seller in Urumqi's night market.

A beggar occupies the center of the road in Urumqi's night market. There was a chain of them arranged along the north-south axis of the cross-shaped market.

The night market in Urumqi. The setup is part of the show. The stalls are prepared and fires are lit before all the merchants barrel out of a warehouse, roll their carts down a short hill and set-up on the street. The entire conversion of the street from thoroughfare to market takes about ninety hair raising seconds.

Would you like to come try my shooting game? It's hard to resist the smile of a woman with a pistol.

Welding metal barrels or urns on a back alley near Urumqi's street market. No goggles.

The best place to display your stock of jackets? On your own body. One of a group of street-side clothing vendors carries his entire stock on his shoulders.

A young girl casts a critical eye on a pile of colorful cloth in Urumqi's street market.

The classic Xinjiang look: skullcap and long bears, on a nan seller at Urumqi's street market.

An old man winds along the sidewalk.

A beggar with stunted legs winds his way through the crowd at Urumqi's street market.