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CHINA: Portrait of a People
by Tom Carter
TRAVEL / PHOTOGRAPHY
PREVIEW IMAGES FOR MEDIA
Following in the footsteps of Marco
Polo and Mao Zedong, San Francisco native Tom Carter made his own Long March
throughout the entire People's Republic
– from the jungles of Yunnan to the
frozen borders of Siberia, across the scalding sands of Xinjiang to the neon
reflections of Hong Kong. On his route through over 200 cities and villages,
Carter left footprints in every province. Interest in China is on the rise in advance of the
2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, and China will soon be
the world's biggest tourist market. This small format book
fills the need for a better understanding of the diverse Chinese people.
The sample images below are
available for media use. Please click on each image to view a high-res
version. Many more images are available
– as one would expect from a three-year
journey – so please contact us with any specific requests. A selection of
photos arranged by province is viewable at the author's website.
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press release as a
Word file
(50kb), or online.
>> View a
Q&A with Tom Carter as a Word file
(213kb) or online.
>> Download our book preview with
sample spreads (pdf, 5.4mb).
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author's
bio, visit the author's
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Hui minority lady -- Xining,
Qinghai
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Manchurian man in hat of dog
fur -- sub-zero Heilongjiang
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Uygur Muslim girl in hijab headscarf -- Hotan, Xinjiang
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Coal miner -- Linfen, Shanxi
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Aba woman with coral headdress
-- northern Sichuan |
Guarding the metro -- Beijing |
Grandmother and
granddaughter -- Jiangsu |
Bashful Han lady in Beijing
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Primary school student
-- south Gansu
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Fujian farmer
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Doing business in beads
-- Beijing |
Taoist monk -- sacred
Wudang Shan mountain
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Tai ji quan -- Beijing |
At the Naadam Festival
in Inner Mongolia |
Dong minority village -- Guizhou |
Mahjong gamblers |
Dancer with hair in 108
auspicious braids -- Qinghai |
Beijing bar -- Wudaokou |
Fresh produce -- Shanghai |
20-year-old Tibetan pilgrim
-- northern Sichuan |
Opera outdoors -- Beijing |
Picking tea -- Jiangxi
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Mountain sunrise -- Sichuan |
Market trader -- Qinghai
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Prayer beads -- West Tibet |
Fortified tulou villages -- Fujian |
Blur of neon -- Central,
Hong Kong |
Aba-Tibetan pilgrim family
-- Gansu |
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Yellow hat sect -- Anhui
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A taste of New China
-- Shandong disco
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Communal housing of the
Hakka people -- Fujian |
Old villager -- Fujian |
