Beijing maiden wearing a traditional qipao made in Beijing. #

Traditional "dragon scale" tiled rooftops can still be found in Chongqing, the most industrialized city in western China. #

Hipster from Hunan's capital city, Changsha. #

Rock formations of Wulingyuan National Park in northern Hunan. #

Elderly Jiangsu farmer in her field of rapeseed. #

Dalian's famous Female Mounted Police Force, established 1994. #

Left: Fujian farmer lost in a tangle of squash vines. Right: Hip Tibetan youth, Sichuan. #

Maoist memorabilia shop in Hubei. #

Human remains from a Tibetan sky burial in northern Sichuan. #

Buddhist pilgrim family from Sichuan. #

Guards are stationed along Beijing's subway platforms to enforce rules of etiquette. #

Left: Construction workers on bamboo scaffolding in ever-developing Shanghai. Right: The old and the new of Macau's developing skyline. #

Langmusi, a sacred Buddhist pilgrimage destination in Gansu. #

Left: Miao ethnic minority tribeswoman in Hunan. Right: Manchurian man with a dog fur cap in Heilongjiang. #

Billboard defaced with stickers advertising jobs in wintery Liaoning. #

Left: Chongqing City, a dense cluster of apartment towers in China's most populous municipality. Right: Tulou earth village of the Fujian Hakka people. #

Young kung fu student at Shaolin Temple, Henan. #

Mongolian woman from Gegentala, Inner Mongolia. #

Modern girl strikes a pose in traditional Sichuan. #

Facade of the infamous Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong's "immigrant ghetto". #

Li tribeswoman, one of the last to have a traditional tattooed face, in Hainan. #

Tibetans walking a kora (spiritual circuit) around a Buddhist temple in southern Gansu. #

Fujian hipsters hanging out in the capital city of Fuzhou. #

Tianjin's crumbling past juxtaposed against its shiny present. #

Left: Coal miners -- one getting off shift and the other going on -- at southern Shanxi. Right: Hong Yao ethnic minority women from northern Guangxi. #

Young tribesman from Guangxi's Yao ethnic minority. #

Anhui's "Bamboo Sea" where the film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon was filmed. #

Photographer Tom Carter in Kham, eastern Tibet. #