The author of An American Bum in China is Shanghai-based writer Tom Carter, whose previous works include CHINA: Portrait of a People, for which he spent two years traveling to all of the country’s 33 provinces, and the controversial China expat anthology Unsavory Elements. The folktale feel is complemented by twenty-four old-style illustrations from artist John Dobson. relations in a new light, will likely remind readers of Forrest Gump, Frank Abagnale Jr’s Catch Me If You Can, and Mark Twain’s stories of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. This chronicle of Evans’ five-year misadventure, which shows Sino-U.S. An inveterate vagrant who flirts with pictures and words, Tom Carter spent 2 straight years backpacking a groundbreaking 35,000 miles across all 33 Chinese provinces, and was named 'one of China's foremost explorers' by The World of Chinese magazine. Tom Carter showing his camera to some new friends in China. Backpacking photographer Tom Carter somehow succeeded in circumnavigating over 35,000 miles. He ends up destitute, deported, working as a professor at a prestigious university, homeless, imprisoned, and an accidental participant in the 2014 Hong Kong protests. On a budget so scant that he drew sympathetic stares from peasants. Tom Watkins is a former Michigan superintendent of schools, former president and CEO of the Economic Council of Palm Beach County, FL and a U.S./China business and education consultant. At the age of twenty-one, cancer survivor Evans flees his Mississippi River hometown of Muscatine and heads to China in pursuit of love. He had some FCS scholarship offers, and schools such. An American Bum in China, Tom Carter (Camphor Press, September 2019)Īn American Bum in China: Featuring the bumblingly brilliant escapades of expatriate Matthew Evans is the remarkable but true story of an Iowan misfit. 2 days ago &0183 &32 Carter wasnt a highly recruited prospect out of high school as a 5-foot-10, 155-pound corner from Oak Ridge High School in Orlando, Florida.

CHINA by Tom Carter