“This collection of nearly 100 photographs shot in present-day Vietnam aims to look past the grisly wars of the last century by focusing on the unchanged daily lives of rice farmers reaping the fields, fishermen casting nets on the water, artisans in workshops, and others, stressing how deeply rooted these lives are in a cultural heritage undiminished by strife or modernism...the photos attest to a collective spirit hinged on the same work and traditions that have been honored for centuries a point that is brought home with analogous Vietnamese poems, some dating back hundreds of years.”
— Publishers Weekly
“Canh Tang has captured qualities of this timeless, exotic Asian land that have eluded other photographers. This Red Rock Press collection will amaze and excite you.”
— Jan C. Scruggs, founder of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
“This book crystallizes the timelessness of the moment by skillfully weaving a tapestry of Vietnam, the land, its peoples, arts and religions. The interplay between image and text truly heightens the aesthetic effect and experience.”
— Quang Phu Van, lector in Vietnamese, Yale University