China Road
China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power is a 2007 book by Rob Gifford.
The book documents Gifford's 2004 trip across China National Highway 312 from Shanghai to the China-Kazakhstan border and his observations of China. Gifford was at the end of his term as a China correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR),[1] and his experiences were the basis of several NPR stories.[2]
Vanessa Bush of Booklist stated "Gifford notes an aggressive sense of competition in the man-eat-man atmosphere of a nation that is likely to be the next global superpower."[3] Dinah Gardner stated that "To anyone who has lived some time in China, Gifford's book is nothing revolutionary - the editors appear to have pruned it for a reader with little knowledge of the country."[4]
Reception
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References
- ↑ "China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power by Rob Gifford" (Archive). Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. Retrieved on July 13, 2014.
- ↑ "'China Road' Trip Gauges a Nation on the Move" (Archive). National Public Radio. Retrieved on July 13, 2014.
- ↑ Bush, Vanessa. "China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power." (review). Booklist. Retrieved on July 13, 2014.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gardner, Dinah. "An over-traveled road" (Archive). Asia Times. December 1, 2007. Retrieved on July 13, 2014.
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