https://www.facebook.com/ CHINA: Portrait of a People's Facebook Wall en-us PageSyndicationFeed Facebook Syndicationhttp://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Fri, 01 May 2015 08:53:04 +0000 webmaster@facebook.com www.facebook.com/notification/59ea2cb4b9834b7f9311aa4f3d70ff4e https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152998844608611 Tom Carter, the author of "CHINA: Portrait of a People", to star in this new commercial.

Shot in the wild wet-markets of #Shanghai and the karst wilderness of #Yangshuo, follow Tom across China as he utilizes Skype Translator to converse with locals in Mandarin #Chinese and discover real #China.

http://news.microsoft.com/videos/skype-translator-live-like-a-local-anywhere-in-the-world/

Tom's books on Amazon: amazon.com/author/china


Skype Translator commercial with Tom Carter
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China: Portrait of a People

Photographer Tom Carter embarked on a 56,000 km trip through all of China's 33 provinces that lasted two years, capturing some amazing images of the widely varying landscape, people, and architecture across China. Carter was kind enough to share some of his portraits here, on the day that the Atlantic launches its new China Channel. Full entry: http://theatln.tc/YLO8NH]]> Fri, 28 Feb 2014 15:53:55 +0100 CHINA: Portrait of a People CHINA: Portrait of a People www.facebook.com/notification/aa4c752991a3d2b57d8b968c0c1bbb86 https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152069347428611
*from 00:00 covers my time as a teacher in Shandong.

*from 2:20 covers my adventures and photography during my 2-year, 35,000-miles backpacking journey across the 33 provinces and the publication of CHINA: Portrait of a People.

*from 13:13 is the making of Unsavory Elements and our debut at the 2013 Shanghai Literary Festival.

*15:15 is me peddling my books on the streets of Shanghai (they censored out the part where the police literary chase me down Nanjing Lu).

Big thanks to the producers of China Right Here: Katherin Yi, Wan Peng, Han Wang. Very sorry to have to cut out your closing credits (Facebook only allows 20 minute vids).

The entire un-edited 23-minute version can be viewed on YouKu and YouTube:
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNjM3MzQ1MTc2.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT3PWyKShMs

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10 Years in China | Tianjin TV biography | Tom Carter 背包摄影家
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‘Unsavory Elements’ review: Expat stories from modern-day China | Asian Correspondent
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In ‘Unsavory Elements’ (Earnshaw Books), traveler and photographer Tom Carter recounts the experiences of 28 foreigners ‘on the loose’ in the People’s Republic of China. Mr Carter – who has edited and partly written the book - mixes well known names, true heavyweights and more anonymous observers of...]]> Fri, 28 Feb 2014 15:36:17 +0100 CHINA: Portrait of a People CHINA: Portrait of a People www.facebook.com/notification/1bbd64622f80a704116371df841b3f10 http://www.facebook.com/chinaportrait/posts/10153889713485578

Cover Stories - Unsavory Elements - More Hangzhou
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