It has a quaint main street with a collection of small shops selling knickknacks.

But they have built a big visitors center, with a shop that sells knickknacks and donated crafts.

Mr. Wang's grandchildren have turned the entrance to their home into a small shop, selling baby clothes and knickknacks.

The children sell knickknacks on streets, work the fields, tend restaurants and, increasingly, work in dangerous jobs in industry and mining.

Street vendors selling low-priced vegetables, fruits, clothes, newspapers, knickknacks, and knockoffs are common in urban Chinatowns.

He sold knickknacks and novelties.

"They are politicians," said Kouadio Kouame, 49, who was selling knickknacks next to the lagoon here.

"Margo Sullivan," Kate marveled, "selling used clothes and knickknacks."

"I used to spend hours going through outdoor flea markets, with thousands of people selling knickknacks," he said.

- to a scribe who discovered him selling knickknacks in a Washington, D.C., shop in 1994.