Ebook {Epub PDF} China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power by Rob Gifford

 · In this utterly surprising and deeply personal book, acclaimed National Public Radio reporter Rob Gifford, a fluent Mandarin speaker, takes the 4/5(20). The assignment is to read the course textbook: CHINA ROAD: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Pow June 8, / in Uncategorized / by Liz The assignment is to read the course textbook: CHINA ROAD: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power, Rob Gilford, Random House, , and write a book report (5 pages, double-spaced).  · From his journey, Gifford concluded that China is rapidly changing, culturally, environmentally, socially, and economically, but the political system remains rigid. Throughout the book, he contemplates whether China will become a superpower, or collapse when faced with bltadwin.rus: Gifford, Rob.

Rob Gifford, a long-time foreign correspondent in China, writes this travelogue of his journey from Shanghai to the far reaches of China's borders with the Turkic peoples in central Asia. Gifford, a Mandarin speaking American, travels on Route first along the Yangtze, then northwards, further through the Gansu corridor and finally in the. In , Rob Gifford set out on a 3,mile trek across China. His trip resulted in a series for NPR and a book called China Road. It looks at an ancient land that is evolving into a modern. Find books like China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power from the world's largest community of readers. Goodreads members who liked China.

China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power by Rob Gifford. At the end of a six-year stint in Beijing as the China correspondent for NPR, Rob Gifford sent his wife and children ahead to London to start their new lives. Gifford, who first arrived in China as a language student in his early 20s, embarks on a two-month, 3,mile journey across China’s Route – not unlike U.S. Route 66 – which joins Shanghai to the western Chinese border with Kazakhstan. In this utterly surprising and deeply personal book, acclaimed National Public Radio reporter Rob Gifford, a fluent Mandarin speaker, takes the dramatic journey along Route from its start in. The Journalist, Rob Gifford is leaving China where he has visited and lived for 20 years with his family. He has now sent his family home and is making one last trip from Shanghai in the east to the Kazakhstan border in far west. His route is the road, which follows for part of its length the old Silk Road.