Panjiayuan Antique Market

The largest antique and curio market in Beijing, this sprawling weekend bazaar in the southeast of the city draws collectors, dealers and browsers to thousands of stalls. Vendors sell old porcelain, calligraphy, jade, furniture, coins, prints, ethnic-minority crafts and countless reproductions across covered halls and open ground. Busiest at weekends when out-of-town traders set up, it is a well-known destination for those hunting curiosities and folk art. Its breadth of goods surveys Chinese material culture broadly.