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Where IS Real China?
by Tom Carter
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Backpacker savant Tom
Carter offers his top five "real" China destinations.
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Shandong Where
Chinese civilization as we know it began, Shandong is a wealth of history
and tradition. From the birthplaces of Sun Tzu and Confucius to sacred
Tai Shan, this is Han culture at its most unadulterated.
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| Ningxia The smallest and least
touristed province, Ningxia is truly one of those places where travelers
feel like the only yangren in China. Droves of unemployed workers on
the street corners take unabashed fascination in watching you watch
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| Yunnan This kaleidoscope of culture
has the highest concentration of minority groups in all of China, whom
appear to us not unlike resplendent yet elusive jungle birds in an effort
to preserve their centuries-old customs. |
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Beijing Compared
to gleaming Shanghai and Hong Kong, we come to Beijing because of its
venerable charm, not in spite of it. Amidst the commotion of hyper urbanization,
the capital city's remaining hutongs capture life exactly as it has
been in China for a thousand years.
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Tibet China's
final frontier and spiritual Shangri-la. Lhasa might be destined to
succumb to red-hat tourism, but journey to the far eastern or western
regions, where nomadic shepherds ,
colorful pilgrims and remote monasteries have yet to encounter a foreign
face.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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China Photographer
Tom Carter is the author of CHINA: Portrait
of a People, 888 snapshots of life and humanity from the 33 provinces
of the People's Republic of China, due out this winter from Hong Kong
publisher
Blacksmith Books.
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