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| Vendors take a break for dinner Sunday, March 11, 2012 in Beijing's famous night market at Wang Fu Jing. The massive square that is Wang Fu Jing has several night markets, which are known for their exotic foods and outlandish souvenirs. |
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| Tourists fill a small network of alleys that are home to an open-air, night market Sunday, March 11, 2012. Wang Fu Jing, of which these alleys are a part, is a massive square, notable for its high end shopping and its Times Square-esque billboards. |
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| A vendor in one of Wang Fu Jing's night markets arranges seahorses on a stick Sunday, March 11, 2012. This particular vendor was selling, among other things, fried snake, tarantula, scorpion, pigeon, grasshopper and gecko. |
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| Laterns adorn one of the night market alleyways in Beijing's Wang Fu Jing shopping district. |
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| Wang Fu Jing's main thoroughfare lights up the night sky Sunday, March 11, 2012. The enormous shopping center attracts tens of thousands of tourists nightly to its stores and eateries. The main street in Wang Fu Jing is closed to car traffic, allowing tourists to wander, eat and shop. |
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| Mao's presence watches over the Wang Fu Jing shopping district from shop windows like this one. Areas like Wang Fu Jing and Tienamen Square show China's brand of capitalism to be a juggling act between CCP loyalism and the overt capitalist drive that has been shoving China up the development ladder. |
