“The snapshots in CHINA: Portrait of a People are not meant to be works of art. I was too preoccupied with participating, with reveling in the moment, to worry about their perfection. Their purpose, then, is to form a candid portrait of China exactly as China presented itself to me” – Tom Carter | Travel […]

“I drift like a cloud, across these venerable eastern lands. A journey of unfathomable distances, an endless scroll of experiences. Lady Zhejiang, here we must part, for the next province awaits my embrace. Sad wanderer, once you conquer the East, where do you go?” – Tom Carter | Travel Quote of the Day

“A peek inside the city’s many nightspots reveals a Shangri-La-di-da of tiny Shanghai socialites in even tinier outfits dancing provocatively with well-to-do Westerners. But while such sights may draw gasps from some people, the truth is that this kind of thing is nothing new for Shanghai, the Orient’s original opium-den of iniquity” – Tom Carter