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A woman fights with chengguan police as they dismantle part of her small restaurant and confiscate equipment that she stored on the sidewalk outside of her shop in the Fuzi Miao tourist market in central Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. The chengguan in Nanjing began a crackdown on sidewalk vendors and shop-owners in advance of the May 1, 2008, May Day holiday. Human Rights Watch makes no other representations about the particular persons depicted in this photograph, who were not part of the research for this report.

© 2008 MSB