Photo of the Day 437

Red Beads, Beijing, China, 2006

Photograph by Jodi Cobb

A red-beaded curtain screens discogoers mingling near colorful lights at a club in Beijing, China. While Beijing boasts many modern venues, including pulsing nightclubs and bustling shopping centers, history still plays a central role in urban life. In places such as the Forbidden City, Beijing’s 2,000-year-plus reign as the imperial capital remains on prominent display to tourists and residents alike.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "This Thing Called Love," February 2006, National Geographic magazine)