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Sze Tsung Leong has done one of the greatest things a photographer can do in this book, and that is elaborating a unique stylistic vision and remaining faithful to it over the course of many, many images.
His subject is the immense scale and pace of change underway in China today, and he has found ways both bold and sly to lasso his subject.
Lets state first of all that the images show an immense amount of care and of technical proficiency. But then there is so much more, great, haunted urban landscapes in the midst of utter transformation.
Here is China as you will not be accustomed to seeing it, and that's meant as high praise from a photographer who lives in the country. [...]

I would just like to say that the picture uploaded by Jung-shing Wu has nothing to do with the book. Why do you upload your amateurish pictures in such a context?
Apart from that, this is one of my all-time favorite photobooks. Perfect pictures, perfect printing.

This is a wonderful book with a not so wonderful subject: the replacement of the old towns in China. Old houses make place for skyscrapers and people are forced to move. Beautiful printed by Steidl.