![]() ![]() The past decade has seen an unprecedented number of new books and novels about China, but aside from a handful of mass-market memoirs there was nothing definitive about its expatriate culture. ![]() Why did you feel there was a need for a collection of stories and anecdotes by Westerners living in China? What is it about that experience that interests you? I asked him about expat identity issues, to try and get under the skin of those “masochistic” enough, in his words, to call China home. He also did a book of photography based on trekking 35,000 miles through 33 provinces for two years. Tom is originally from San Francisco and has been living in China for a decade. ![]() Over at the LA Review of Books China blog, I interview Tom Carter in the wake of the collection of true stories from expat China he edited, called Unsavory Elements. The unbearable lightness of being an expat in China – a Q&A with Tom Carter ![]()
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