Candide in the Middle Kingdom

"Shenzhen" was produced three years before "Pyongyang", and it shows. The style is less said here, and even in the pages, there is an evolution in a fairly striking, the last pages approaching over his column in North Korea. We are in minimalism, which should not mean "absence of style." Several boxes in the first part are almost amateur, with a sketch sloppy and frankly ugly. Fortunately, Delisle compensates for this by humor and relevance of framing and layout.

For the rest, this is pretty nice, some may find it too anecdotal and irrelevant in relation to a country where democracy is still largely absent, but I find for myself that this is an original way of describing a dune country very different culture ours, for us Westerners, recounting his daily as a foreign visitor and "candid". We can blame the subjectivity of the process, certainly, but at least it allows the author déchapper risk of errors inherent in documentary The approach. This makes unpretentious sincerity, without trying to embellish or denigrating, making it all the more endearing louvrage. Certainly this little nincite to visit in Shenzhen, but Delisle LAVOUE himself towards the end, he would rather spend his few months in Canton, a seemingly friendly city that he had leisure to discover the time of a weekend.