Part of a series on Watertowns near Shanghai and Suzhou. Click on the first image above to go through all of the photographs as a gallery - then read the text below :) I'm in the process of photographing 25 of the larger, and most popular, of these unique ancient water-towns, between Shanghai and Suzhou, for a new book to be published later this year (ca. Summer 2026). Therefore I thought I'd make a series of short blog posts to highlight some of these wonderful places, both