Guy Delisle is at it again drawing and writing on his travels and back around the millennial he travels to China and wrote a graphics book about his experiences and the numerous eccentric and neurotic folks he ran into as a graphics writer for a French company that outsourced work to a cold Chinese city in the South mainland. Delisle is again in a major cultural dramatic quagmire during his stay as he spent time in China learning the habits and actions of the Han people. Mr Delisle spent time during a massive construction boom and makes observation of his time in this surveillance state and witnessed many bizarre things during his stay such as Chinese rea
reading papers leaning and sitting on thin railings overpasses to highways. Guy can't believe how many people shield themselves from the sun rays with newspapers, umbrellas , or their hands is somehow this will be effective and it protests them fro ultra-violet rays and radiation. One gets the idea that spending a few months in any Chinese city far from the tourist spots and people will come across that the Chinese are pretty weird eating snakes and kicking elevators being every day scenarios seen by the visitor. Guy has traveled to many places around the globe in his career as a world-renown comic strip artist and it seems it is the Asian countries and the peculiars of Asian food and unique traits that most fascinate the guy as his book called "Shenzhen" shows during his time in this rather dull Chinese city far from the luxury and glory of Beijing. 
China has transformed itself from a community country to a state-communist capitalist power mainly through slave-wage strength that fuels this economy and I would of liked to see some of this expressed in Guy's book but it was lacking. Stil an entertaining book overall.
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