Tom Carter spent 2 straight years backpacking a groundbreaking 35,000 miles across all 33 Chinese provinces, and was named "one of China's foremost explorers" by The World of Chinese magazine. His first book "CHINA: Portrait of a People" (2008, Blacksmith Books, Hong Kong) has been hailed as the most comprehensive book of photography on modern China ever published by a single author. He is also the editor of "Unsavory Elements" (2013, Earnshaw Books, Shanghai), an anthology about foreign expats in China. Most recently, he penned the illustrated biography "An American Bum in China" (2019,...
