China Road | 
 enlarge | Author: Rob Gifford
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc.
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1830880
Media: Audio Cassette
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 8
Pages: 200
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 6.3 x 4.3 x 2.8
ISBN: 0786149752
Dewey Decimal Number: 951.06
EAN: 9780786149759
ASIN: 0786149752
Publication Date: May 16, 2007
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Product Description
National Public Radio's Beijing correspondent Rob Gifford recounts his travels along Route 312, the Chinese Mother Road, the longest route in the world's most populous nation. Based on his successful NPR radio series, China Road draws on Gifford's twenty years of observing first-hand this rapidly transforming country, as he travels east to west, from Shanghai to China's border with Kazakhstan. As he takes the reader on this journey, he will also take us through China's past and present while he tries to make sense of this complex nation's potential future.
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 very bias December 19, 2008
the author is "tired of the optimistics" as he stated in the book. all he wanted to show is the negative side of view although part of them probably were true. if you really want to know a true china, you need to explore yourself broadly but not from anyone who only tells you what he wants you to know.
 A great book December 6, 2008
I was tasked with an unclassified China Culture Brief for our squadron's Commander's Call. I used many of Rob Gifford's facts, stories, and analysis, all of which went over well.
His story about the great wall petering out around the Hexi Corridor got my mind churning on how useless the wall really was (and the feasibility of other countries walls, for that matter.) His description of how SW and NW China are not really the China that westerners have in mind was very eye opening. How Rob encountered city upon city that have 1 million people yet are never even mentioned in the west is a true testament to how big the population size, something I'm just starting to wrap my brain around. The pictures in the middle are great, I wish Random House could have included double that amount. The cover picture is a wonderful contrast of old and new China, great idea for whoever brainstormed that one.
I read many international relations books for my job and this one was the best and clearest writing I've stumbled upon in a while.
Fascinating profile of China today October 25, 2008
I read this book while teaching school in China Summer 2008. It was a very interesting depiction of the dichotomies in China today - on the one hand the official word and on the other the curiosity and interest of the people in everything western. It was a book that made me think a lot about what I was seeing and what my students were saying. Gifford very accurately and clearly points out the options that face China in the near future and manages to give what seemed to me an unbiased view of both sides of each option. Gifford travels to both known and little known places so it's a travelogue as well. The book is very well written and well worth reading if you have any interest in China at all. When I finished reading China Road, I passed it along to another teacher at the school who has travelled throughout China and has lived there as well. He could hardly put it down, he found it so interesting.
China Road - trip into the minds of the populace October 24, 2008
Rob Gifford presents an insightful journey into the hearts of the hearts and minds of the Chinese citizens he interviews on his travels down Route 312. He also provides historical information on how China got where it is today, and his prediction on how the country will evolve in the future. His observations help outsiders understand the ever evolving mixture of loosening economical control with the maintenance of a communist political structure, and the risks it presents to China's future. Overall, an excellent and thought provoking book!
China from one side to the other October 22, 2008
NPR reporter Robert Grifford travels the length of China overland meeting interesting people and seeing the sharp contrasts in this emerging power.
From the ultra-modern skyscrapers of Shanghai to farms unchanged in centuries Grifford seeks out the state of modern China in each.
Grifford's style is clear and patient, he explains the history and background of each destination and even a pronunciation guide for Chinese names. Both neophites and veteran China scholars will find things of interest.
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