A memorable journey from Hong Kong to Guanxi, Guizhou and Yunnan, waits to begin in Ethnic Portraits of Guizhou China. Through this book, photographer Kit Hayward shares her observations and feelings about China’s economic advancement in recent decades as reflected in some remote areas.

Guizhou is better known today as one of the most beautiful provinces in China. Situated in southwest China, it is bordered by Yunnan to the west, Sichuan to the north, Hunan to the east and Guanxi to the south. Guizhou is a multicultural province with the fifth largest ethnic population in China. In exploring this province, the author has steered away from known tourist trails and found her way into small villages. There she captured through her lens, raw images of the people and landscape. These images paint a vivid picture of the life of the people of that ethnic minority at that moment in time.

Ethnic Portraits of Guizhou China portrays five of the groups: the Dong, the Miao, the Gejia, the Bouyei and the Long Horn Miao and provides a taste of China’s multiple peoples and landscapes that may be a starting point for readers to registering China as a reality instead of a myth in the world.