"And yet, it is hard not to be charmed by this travelogue; the art communicates a real feeling of place, and each detail kept me reading. Delisle attempts something bolder here than the clean pencil work of the companion volume, Pyongyang, using charcoal and grease pencil to give us heavy blacks with less actual line work. Geometric shapes in the design bring to mind China's oppressive industrialization, the pushing of form over life. Shenzhen is an odd combination of intimacy and alienation."