Back the new edition of the Kowloon Walled City book!

April 2, 2014 by Jason Li

We posted some of photographer Greg Girard’s photos a while ago, and it looks like they’re ready to jet set a new edition of their book along with previously-unseen photographs and research.

Back out their Kickstarter now.

Documenting the Toishan-US migration

October 24, 2013 by Jason Li

From Kickstarter:

I need your support to return to Toishan, China, and complete my photographic and historical documentary project tying together my family history and the larger story of the Chinese-American diaspora and emigration abroad.

Over the next several years, I will spend six to twelve months in China, photographing and interviewing Toishanese…

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Kowloon Walled City repository

April 9, 2013 by Jason Li

Those of us who’ve been in Hong Kong are constantly barraged by articles and people describing the magic of the now-dismantled Kowloon Walled City. Amidst the romanticization of this 6.5 acre block that was ungoverned or policed for decades (it lay in limbo between communist China and colonial British rule), people rarely offer any photographs of its inside. Until now, I had…

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Iwan Baan photography: New versus historic Tulou architecture

June 23, 2011 by Jason Li

VANKE Tulou Housing Guangzhou – Affordable housing complex
By URBANUS Architects

Historic Tulou Housing in Yongding – China

More from Iwan Baan on his website. (Via Solid Gap.)

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Back the new edition of the Kowloon Walled City book!

Documenting the Toishan-US migration

Kowloon Walled City repository

Iwan Baan photography: New versus historic Tulou architecture