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Slip into your PJs and pull up a chair (on the street, of course).

With the forthcoming Olympic Games drawing ever more attention to China, there has never been a better time to discover the astonishing city that is Shanghai. Shanghai's open-air lifestyle, bustling markets, and curious fashion sense are all captured by award-winning photographer Justin Guariglia's lens in P***T SHANGHAI, a multifaceted and intimate portrait of day-to-day life in one of the great cities of the world.

Guariglia, whose work has appeared in National Geographic Traveler and Smithsonian magazines, first visited Shanghai in the mid-nineties while studying in Beijing. Fascinated by the world he discovered in the undeveloped back alleys and leafy ***s hidden from the teeming main streets, he has returned again and again over the past decade to document what he considers the real Shanghai.

"Over the course of my travels," Guariglia observes, "I began to realize that authentic slices of culture that have withstood change over centuries, and may still provide a portal into ancient traditions, are truly becoming a global anomaly. They still exist in some areas, but they are unfortunately dwindling rapidly, amid the worldwide assimilation of cultures and societies."

P***t Shanghai is a powerful collection of photographs that capture a slice of life in the old town and waterfront, which, despite mega-booming development, have managed to retain their cultural character. View a selection of photographs from P***t Shanghai on our Web site, check out what the New York Times Style Magazine had to say about the book, and find out what Justin Guariglia has to say about Shanghai's love of pajamas on the Chronicle Books Blog.

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