[.uk] EDSA Asian Classical Landscape Line Drawing (ISBN 4903233057)

fact:
1) Technically, Mr. Smith drawing produced while he was an emplyee of the comany and get salary paid, belogs to the company ( if it is any good) 2)Some design and graphic are very good reference.The book colected typical projects done in China, while David Chen was in Charge of the EDSA's Beijing Joint Venture Office from 2000-2006. Most of the people who's work collected in the book have left the company since 2006 Chen's leaving.They are now with Ecoland in Beijing.

Plagerism at Best:
This book, "EDSA's Classic Asian Line etc", is a total rip off. I know this because no less than 9 of my illustrations have been published without my permission. The so-called author David Chen stole these drawings from a staff of largely Chinese designers then had the book printed in Hong Kong without the permission of the mother company EDSA (located in Olando Florida). He has featured his own drawings by prominately displaying his own signature, most of which were done in the last century and erasing almost all of the others, (save two of mine 'b. smith'). He then makes comment using landscape jargon on a few pieces in order to sound academic when in reality it is a huge info-mercial for one man. Fortunately the many spelling errors reveal the fact that he has hastily put this together revealing his own stupidity. I am amazed that such a company as Amazon would not research the authenticity of an item before promoting and selling it. For shame Amazon! regards, Broc Smith

Chinese Water Torture:
This is a bad book. It is, however, a good representation of what is happening to the global market economy, in the fact that a) the Chinese are knocking off everything, and b) US firms a who take advantage of the financial windfalls they recieve from working in Asia occasionally get burned. To EDSA's credit the graphics in the book are good, but there is too little content regarding process, the projects, or anything of interest to make this purchase worth $35. The text is "hirarious". Interesting fact: this book was published by an ex-EDSA employee in CHina without permission of the US firm based in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Amazon must have a warehouse full of these things, because I got this book less than 36 hours after I purchased it with standard shipping.