Published in 2011 by Thircuir., *Yang Yongliang: Paysages* presents a body of photographic montages by Yang Yongliang that treats landscape as a site of profound transformation. Its images place the city’s expansion against the diminishing presence of nature: skyscrapers stand in for trees, while cranes redraw the contours of the environment. The premise is direct, but the pictures are described as trompe-l’œil landscapes, inviting attention to the instability of what appears natural and what has been constructed.

The work’s distinctive force lies in its layered relation to time. These densely detailed ecological fables connect China’s past with its modernity, opening onto a disquieting space between the present and the future. Rather than presenting urban change as a simple documentary fact, Yang’s montages make it uncanny—historical memory and contemporary development occupy the same visual field. The resulting tension gives the book an interpretive richness beyond a straightforward account of environmental pressure.

For collectors, the book deserves attention as a concise record of Yang’s approach to photographic image-making and of a distinctly Chinese encounter between inherited landscape traditions and accelerated urban construction. The French-language publication, issued in paperback, is a compact volume of 96 pages, measuring approximately 16.5 × 11.6 × 0.8 cm. Its small format is suited to close looking: the abundance of detail and the friction between illusion, architecture, and memory reward sustained examination. *Paysages* is significant not for spectacle alone, but for the precision with which it turns ecological change into a question of cultural and visual imagination.