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Tom Carter
Member since 19th May 2007
Occupation: Photojournalist Tom Carter of San Francisco is an internationally published freelance photojournalist, travel writer and author specializing in the People's Republic of China. Tom has traveled extensively throughout all 33 Chinese provinces and autonomous regions and currently resides in Beijing. Tom's byline credits include writing exclusive travel features for every major English-language publication in the P.R.C., and he is the author of 'CHINA: Portrait of a People,' a definitive 600-page book of photography focusing on life and humanity in today's China, due out in late 2007.
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26th August 2007
A conversation with Tom Carter, author of CHINA: Portrait of a People.
American photo-journalist Tom Carter has spent the past four years in the People’s Republic of China, traversing all 33 provinces and autonomous regions not just once but twice. T...
07th August 2007
Seven Days In Permitless Tibet by Tom Carter
The news was shocking!
The ticket agent at the Shangri-la bus terminal in Zhongdian, Yunnan province was happy to tell me over and over, in both Chinese and English, that yes, foreigners can now travel e...
07th August 2007
Kailash Karma Kora by Tom Carter
My path to purification began in the home of Shiva the Destroyer – or perhaps it was just his rubbish bin. The shantytown of Darchen at the foot of Mt Kailash in western Tibet is populated with half-naked, red-cheeke...
07th August 2007
Backpacker savant Tom Carter offers his top five "real" China destinations:
Shandong
Where Chinese civilization as we know it began, Shandong is a wealth of history and tradition. From the birthplaces of Sun Tzu and Confucius to sacred Tai Shan, this ...
07th August 2007
Gansu, the Mainland's Little Lhasa by Tom Carter
In these over-publicized times of China's new railroad to Tibet, one might be better off avoiding the tourist circus than rnning away with it. Indeed, unless the reader has a certain fondness for overbo...
07th August 2007
Hainan Island, On the Edge of the Earth By Tom Carter
It is interesting to note that while the island of Hainan in southwest China is the country's number two holiday ravel destination (in between Jiuzhaigou National Park in Sichuan and Yunnan's Lijia...
07th August 2007
"He's from Pakistan.""No, no! He's Japanese." A lively group of Uyghurs orbiting around me at the Hotan marketplace in southern Xinjiang were vociferously debating the nationality of the 196cm foreigner standing before them.
I am in fact a first-genera...
07th August 2007
Yunnan, a Kaleidescope of Culture by Tom Carter
While China's northeastern parts such as Beijing and Shandong may represent the historical heart of the People's Republic, it's in the west where we find a unique cultural diversity that is so attractive...
07th August 2007
On China's Pre-Packaged Tourism by Tom Carter
"What could possibly compel them to do something so… wrong?"
This was the question posed by a group of expats sitting around a youth hostel in scenic Huangshan Mountain, China's beloved mountain range ...
07th August 2007
On China's Racist Hotels by Tom Carter
Anyone who has spent time in the People's Republic of China is obviously aware of the sheer number of hotels and sundry boardinghouses located in even the smallest city.
What patronizing Western travelers frequ...
07th August 2007
On Crime In China by Tom Carter
Perhaps the single most reassuring fact about travel in the People's Republic of China is its remarkably low crime rate.
The Ministry of Public Security (MPS), the principal authority of domestic criminal procedures, ...
07th August 2007
Backpackers Gone Wild by Tom Carter
As a veteran backpacker of both hemispheres currently traveling extensively throughout all 32 provinces of the People’s Republic of China, this writer has come to depend heavily on hostels. Without them I could not...
07th August 2007
Down & Out in HK
A poor man's epiphany in wealthy Asian metropolis.
by Tom Carter
Having spent over two-and-a-half straight years in the Chinese mainland without leave, it was with both anticipation and apprehension that I recently crossed the southe...
07th August 2007
PLANET PANJIAYUAN
Inside Beijing’s Largest Antiques Fair
by Tom Carter
Perhaps not by coincidence, the Greek word Pangaea, meaning “all lands,” is the name historians have given to planet Earth before its continental drift 200 millions years ag...
07th August 2007
Now We Are In Xanadu! by Tom Carter
In the summer it is a scalding expanse of desert, in the spring verdant grassland; but in the winter, Inner Mongolia is a white kingdom few travelers, beyong the occasional Mongol nomad, brave to enter.
Indeed, th...
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