Tom Carter is a travel writer and photojournalist and the author of China: Portrait of a People.
By turn funny, scary and insightful - every foreigner in China has a story, these are some of the best. Here we have the laowai experience in China in all its multifarious permutations. From the dedicated insiders to the seriously lost; from those who have sought to deep-dive China to those who've suffered glancing, but eye-opening, blows. Paul French, author of Midnight in Peking