Add to ORKGAs New Year’s is often a time of glitz and glamour (and last-minute holiday giving), we thought we would feature a few books that often include text with smart things to say, but would also be worth getting just for the pictures. 1. Lynn Pan’s Shanghai Style: Art and Design Between the Wars An examination of the polyglot artistic influences in early twentieth century Shanghai, by one of the city’s acute observers. 2. Claire Roberts and Geremie R. Barme eds.,The Great Wall of China This book features essays by many scholars about the varied history and uses of the Great Wall, alongside photographs and interviews with people who live with the Wall on a daily basis