Published in 2013 by Galerie Paris-Beijing, *Artificial wonderland* presents the work of Yongliang Yang, an artist who moves between photography, painting, video, and installation. Its central method is a meeting of traditional Chinese visual languages—particularly calligraphy and shanshui landscape—with new media. The result is an artifice that draws simultaneously on inherited forms and technologically shaped image-making, producing a world described by its catalog record as both ancestral and futuristic.

That tension gives the book its particular interest. Yang does not treat tradition as a fixed historical style, nor new media as a neutral contemporary tool. Instead, the two are placed in productive proximity: the signs and spatial imagination of classical landscape are reconfigured through photographic and digital means. The title’s “wonderland” therefore suggests less an escape than an unstable constructed realm, one in which cultural memory and artificial image space continually alter one another.

For collectors of photobooks concerned with the expanded possibilities of the medium, this volume is significant because its subject is inseparable from its approach. Yang’s practice crosses established categories, and the book records that cross-disciplinary position through a sustained engagement with image, landscape, and mediated perception. At 197 pages, the hardcover is a substantial presentation of the work rather than a brief portfolio statement. Its square 28.5-centimetre format further supports an attentive reading of the images as a body, allowing the encounter between classical reference and contemporary fabrication to unfold across the sequence. Identified by ISBN 9791090176485, *Artificial wonderland* deserves attention as a focused document of Yang’s synthesis of Chinese pictorial traditions and new media.