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I often receive emails from aspiring authors and photographers inquiring about the creation process or asking for publishing advice. I am hardly any kind of publishing professional or literary expert, but I am always happy to share my experiences as an indie author and impart my accrued knowledge about publishing.

I asked the father and mother to which Tibetan ethnolinguistic category they belonged (i.e. Aba, Chabao-Jiarong, Zhugqu), but the father admitted he didn\'t know; he was, he said, simply Tibetan. Indeed, such classifications are made by a government on the other side of the country, not Tibetans themselves.

Travel photographer Tom Carter spent 2 straight years traveling 35,000 miles across all 33 provinces in China to create his groundbreaking photography book CHINA: Portrait of a People. Kay Bratt sits down with Tom to discuss western misconceptions of Chinese culture, the difference between Chinaâ€s rural and urban schools, and the challenges of being a foreign photographer in a Communist-controlled police state.

It is an ongoing journey that he has tasked himself with completing since 2004, and though not continuous, Earnshaw has thus far traversed over three per cent of the earth's circumference between Shanghai and Tibet. On foot!

Orissa is also one of India's most poor regions and in a constant state of political turmoil between local indigenous tribes, represented by the far-left Naxalites, or Maoists, and government and corporate interests out to exploit the resource-rich region.

Travel photographer Tom Carter is backpacking across all of India to photograph his next book. Here is a preview of some of his incredible imagery from the 35 states of India.

US-China Institute interviews photographers and photojournalists exploring China's modern transformation. Tom Carter, author of CHINA: Portrait of a People, takes us on a visual journey across China.

Pink-Light District is English-language nomenclature referring to brothels fronting as hair salons in China.