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Two knife sellers sharpening their wares in Kashgar.

Yellow sodium lamps and blue fluorescents give a study in contrasting nighttime colors in the neighborhood behind Kashgar's mosque.

As the nighttime breeze ripples the red tarpaulins strung over a kashgar street, a lone bicyclist makes his way down the road.

A young girl with her invalid father under the streetlights of a neighborhood near Kashgar's mosque. The moody, yellow glow of the lights is exaggerated by having been photgraphed with daylight white balance.

Floodlit Mao towers over People's Street West (Renmin Xilu) in the late evening, with Kashgar's incongruous Ferris wheel in the background. Taken from my hotel room. Kashgar is two cities: a semi-modern Chinese one, and a sprawl of traditional Uighur neighborhoods.

A scavenger reviews the day's haul on a ledge outside of Kashgar's elegant, downtown mosque.

Three young boys duel with water-filled soda bottles on a hot afternoon in the shady walkways of one of Kashgar's traditional Uighur neighborhoods. Your correspondent was the victim of some collateral damage.

Two gentlemen sit in front of a colorful backdrop and engage the occasional tourist in conversation.

Two cheerful, young girls carry stools on their heads.

She is seated in one of the food stalls at Kashgar's market, just her feet and the hem of her dress visible beneath the tent.