In the ninth book of the acclaimed series Wake Up, This is Joburg, photographer Mark Lewis and writer Tanya Zack follow professional shoppers who cross national borders in search of high quality goods in Johannesburg’s bustling inner city for their customers back home in Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia, Malawi … The shoppers, mostly women, navigate the perils of Johannesburg— muggers, corrupt city offcials, unscrupulous police—to conduct their business and, in the process, contribute billions in annual revenue to a city that remains largely hostile to their presence. They come to shop in the thousands of small spaces that fill the alleys and high modernist towers of the CBD. The shops are run by men and women who have transformed buildings originally known as Lancet Hall, Medical Arts, or Medical Chambers into thriving centres of trade with names like Abyssinia, Merkato, Joburg Mall and Nadibas. The cross-border shoppers scour these stores for cosmetics, clothing, accessories and homeware. They take orders from clients back home, advertise on Facebook, send messages back and forth—all while pounding the streets in search of the best quality and better deals. By some accounts, the annual turnover is equivalent to that of two Sandton City shopping malls. Johannesburg. Made in China gives us some insight into how the combined efforts of these shoppers and traders, who have carved out businesses over decades of networking and trading, contribute to the growth of Johannesburg and indeed to the region as a whole. It is a story of gutsy entrepreneurship and tenacity that should make city offcials and others sit up and take notice!