PanJiaYuan and Kaching
Panjiayuan.com is NOT for English readers who are the main customer for Panjiayuan market
Any arty things of value are sold under one roof
Point your favorite browser to Novica.com, you will find thousands of home decoration items including rugs, furniture, masks, mirrors, vases, sculptures from talented artists around the world. To the American consumers, this website offers click and buy options for those who can buy these items to lighten up their home without the hassle of traveling aboard. In essence, Novica.com is an online bazaar who also handles the international shipping and custom clearance.
As an experienced international travel knows, these items are mostly sold in bazaars in places like Indian, Pakistan, Bali, and in Beijing. PanJiaYuan is such a place.
PanJiaYuan was a fruit and vegetable market though out the 90s. By the late 1990s, the weekend antique market started to take off. The antique dealers who source the items from all over china came here to display their items and negotiate the best possible price. There were stories about the lucky few who brought genuine Tang dynasty vase for pennies. But most of the buyer pays for the artistic value of the items rather than the historical significance. The market grew into a popular arts and craft exchange in the beginning of this century. Almost any items of value can be found here. From reproduction of the Ming furniture to Tibetan Thangka painting, from cigarette box of the 1930s to the Mao