Tom Carter
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| 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.\'
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New author of CHINA: Portrait of a People sits down to discuss the hard facts about photojournalism and travel in the vast People's Republic of China.
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Drolma-La Pass - A Near-Death Experience
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Located in Ngari, West Tibet, Mount Kailash aka Kang Rinpoche is the most sacred mountain kora in Asia. But crossing the 5,600-meter Drolma La Pass can be a fatal experience for some.
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Learn Kung Fu where it all started - Shaolin Temple
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These are the sons and daughters of Shaolin, young students who have given up secular life for a strict regimen and forsaken conventional curriculum for physical conditioning. At Shaolin Si, the sword is truly mightier than the pen.
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Jobless? Bored? Come Teach English in China.
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The ideal job for recent college grads, unemployed workers and expats on the lam, teaching English in China provides a decent salary and job security combined with exotic travel and lots of fun.
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Panjiayuan - Beijing's World of Antiques
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Scores of international visitors from the Orient to the Americas to Europe peruse the eclectic bazaar to purchase relics that truly cannot be found anywhere else in the world.
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Hong Kong
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Hong Kong also happens to boast the most millionaires in the entire Asian continent. They are strikingly handsome or unabashedly beautiful. They attire themselves in dark designer suits with razorblade creases and immaculately shined shoes, or dangerously short skirts and even more dangerous stiletto heels.
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Yunnan Province, China
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Situated on the southwestern corner of four other provinces, Yunnan also shares borders with three countries, its proximity resulting in the highest concentration of ethnic groups in all of China.
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Xinjiang, China
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Categorically different from the rest of the country in every conceivable way, the Muslim-dominated Xinjian in the distant northwest is at once China's most intriguing and intimidating travel destination.
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Hainan, China
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Those wishing to remove themselves from the urban commotion will find rustic serenity on the central coastline around Xiangshui Bay, the only traffic being farmers in coned hats and grazing cattle.
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Gansu Province, China
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The narrowly arching province makes it somewhat inconvenient to traverse, yet it is due to this shapely fact that the northern and southern regions offer dramatically different topography, climate and culture, lending to Gansu's uniquely varying charm.
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