China may be a single entity, but it has a great variety of people and peoples within its vast borders. Alongside the 22 provinces (23 if you count Taiwan), there is a spattering of Special Economic Zones (2), 4 Municipalities and 5 Autonomous Regions.
It’s often these latter that court controversy as the people of Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Guangxi and Ningxia have such strong identities. Of the 56 ethnic groups recognised by the Government, it’s in these areas that their difference from that of the Han Chinese can perhaps be best seen.
With influences from Tibet, Ghengis Khan and the nomadic Mongol horsemen, I took these pictures on a trip to Hohhot, the capital city of Inner Mongolia in an attempt to capture some of the local colour & flavour.
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An Unweeded Garden 
Posted on December 9, 2012
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