"For nearly 30 years I have watched China, its economic, cultural and social evolution. For nearly 30 years the country's pulse has raced. Things move fast - too fast. Landscapes and cities transform, grow estranged from themselves, grow uglier, everything sacrificed on the altar of development and profit at any cost." A direct witness to that frenzy, the photographer wanted to stop time, picking up her Leica and film again as she had decades before.