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  • A conversation with 'CHINA: Portrait of a People' author Tom Carter
    CHINA: Portrait of a People author and photographer Tom Carter expounds on Chinese censorship, peasant riots and how insolvency helped inspire his new book in this first exclusive interview.
  • Hao Bizarre, How Bazaar
    Perhaps the foremost reason why so few travelers make the journey to northwest China’s Xinjiang province is quite simply its vastness.
  • Xanadu!
    While the name Xanadu invokes an air of mystery to those who have never been, there is in fact no “snow-white mares with sacred milk, rich and beautiful meadows” as observed by Marco Polo, nor Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s oft-cited “stately pleasure dome.”
  • Jiuzhaigou
    While Jiuzhaigou is a massive 720 square meters, you can feel the full force of the nature reserve on a two-day pass.
  • Inside Beijing’s Largest Antiques Fair
    Here, spanning landscapes of antiquated wares, art, precious stones and revolutionary memorabilia meet precipitous mountains of books, furniture, ceremonial dress and sundry jewelry. One must finally traverse vast seas of dynastic china, heirlooms, national regalia and old coins before emerging dusty, exhausted and burdened with your finds.
  • A Poor Man's Epiphany In Hong Kong
    “I’ve never felt more poor than when I was in Hong Kong... I’ve never felt more ugly than when I was in Hong Kong.”
  • Backpackers Gone Wild
    People from every country imaginable sitting around drinking and chatting, their accented conversations invariably beginning with “Where are you from?” followed by “Where are you going?” Happy laughter is a constant. Our world leaders would do well to study life in a hostel.
  • China's Crime Rate
    In an uncharacteristically candid public admission, the MPS has reported a pandemic of illicit drug trafficking in China led by an increasing number of foreign crime syndicates, reportedly from the African regimes of Nigeria and Liberia and triads from neighboring Asian countries.
  • China's Racist Hotel Laws
    What patronizing Western travelers frequently encounter at the front desk, however, is a sudden expulsion by the proprietor conveying in Chinese that NO FOREIGNERS ARE ALLOWED!
  • China's Tour Group Troubles
    What was supposed to have been a heavenly respite turned into an out-and-out circus replete with megaphones, flags and the congestion of untold numbers of tourists with the inopportune desire to see the same thing at the same time.
  • Hong Kong, City of Life and Lights
    It is the best of Beijing and Bangkok, London and Las Vegas, New York and New Delhi.
  • Yunnan, a Kaleidescope of Culture
    Nowhere else in the country might one uncover the splendor of China's varied minority population than 'south of the clouds,' Yunnan.
  • Xinjiang, China's Final Frontier
    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.
  • Hainan Island, On the Edge of the Earth
    Conversely, sweltering summers turn Hainan into a veritable Hades.
  • Gansu, the Mainland's Little Lhasa
    Fortunately, lesser-traveled Gansu province in northwest China offers the cultural charm of Tibet without the crowds.
  • Tom Carter's Top-5 China Tips
    Backpacker savant Tom Carter offers his top five "real" China destinations.
  • The Good Earth
    The rice terraces, with sloping grades reaching 50 degrees, have been sculpted by generations of farmers beginning in the Yuan dynasty to shape the hillsides into grand agricultural pyramids not unlike those found in Guatemala or Mexico.
  • Kailash Karma Kora
    Before I had ascended but one-third of the way up the 5,600-meters of evil that is the Drolma-La Pass, I was doubled over with exhaustion.
  • Seven Days In Permitless Tibet
    Yes, foreigners can now travel east through the Tibet Autonomous Region to Lhasa … overland and without a permit!
  • On China's Trans-Pacific Express (TPE) Cable Network
    Why China's telecommunications infrastructure is failing.
  • China's Shaolin Kung Fu Training Schools
    Be the next Jet Li by learning Kung Fu where it all started.
  • Teach English In China!
    Running from the IRS? Just graduate College? Then come to China and teach English!
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