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China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power (精装)
by Rob Gifford
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Booklist, USA
<2008-01-07 00:00>
National Public Radio China correspondent Gifford journeyed for six weeks on China's Mother Road, Route 312, from its beginning in Shanghai for nearly 3,000 miles to a tiny town in what used to be known as Turkestan. The route picks up the old Silk Road, which runs through the Gobi Desert to Central Asia to Persia and on to Europe. Along the way, Gifford meets entrepreneurs hoping to cash in on China's growing economy, citizens angry and frustrated with government corruption, older people alarmed at changes in Chinese culture and morality, and young people uncertain and excited about the future. Gifford profiles ordinary Chinese people coping with tumultuous change as development and commerce shrink a vast geography, bringing teeming cities and tiny towns into closer commercial and cultural proximity; the lure of wealth is changing the Chinese character and sense of shared experience, even if it was common poverty. 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. Vanessa Bush
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Ted Koppel, managing editor, Discovery Channel, USA
<2008-01-07 00:00>
How I envy Rob Gifford and his journey along China Road. How grateful I am to him for allowing me to share the trip through his vivid writing and his deep knowledge of and great love for China. As vicarious enjoyment goes, this one’s a ten. |
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Peter Hassler, author of River Town and Oracle Bones, USA
<2008-01-07 00:00>
Rob Gifford has found the perfect road trip. His years in China have given him a keen eye and a deep understanding of the country’s contradictions; he’s the perfect guide to this magnificent road from Shanghai to the Kazakhstan border.
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Scott Simon, host of NPR’s Weekend Edition and author of Pretty Birds, USA
<2008-01-07 00:00>
My gosh, I loved Rob Gifford’s book. His journey along Route 312 is a great road story - from Hooters in Shanghai to the Iron House of Confucianism. China Road is insightful, funny, analytical, anecdotal, full of humble humor and magnificent discoveries.
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Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Columbia University, USA
<2008-01-07 00:00>
Here is China end to end, told from its equivalent of Route 66 as Gifford journeys from Shanghai to the distant west, talking to truck drivers, merchants, hermits, and whores. Gifford portrays China with affection and humor, in all its complexity, energy, hopefulness, and risk. |
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Jim Yardley, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times Beijing correspondent, USA
<2008-01-07 00:00>
Equal parts Bill Bryson and Jonathan Spence. Gifford is great company and great fun, and China Road is a terrific, highly readable book. |
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Joseph S. Nye, Jr., former assistant secretary of defense, Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard , USA
<2008-01-07 00:00>
A great book, a terrific read. Rob Gifford’s story is as engaging as any travel writing, but it is equally full of historical and philosophical wisdom about the future of the world’s largest country.
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Orville Schell, director, the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations , USA
<2008-01-07 00:00>
After six years in Beijing, NPR’s Rob Gifford has written a wonderfully reflective but also well-informed account of his road trip across China. His knowledge and insight about China’s past and present do a marvelous job in helping the reader understand all the challenges that confront this very dynamic country’s future.
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Bob Chang (MSL quote), China
<2008-01-07 00:00>
While I got this book as a second thought to another book on China, I was fascinated by the book and Rob's ability to capture the China behind the western viewpoint of the country. I found it extremely readable yet the book covered some important strategic issues for China as well as giving us a picture of how people are adapting to China's new prosperity. I would strongly recommend this to book to anyone who's going to visit China or is interested in China's growth as a "super power". |
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Steven La (MSL quote), USA
<2008-01-07 00:00>
Rob Gifford was able to open parts of my mind about China that I would never have done on my own (despite living there for half a year). This captivating book provides insight drawn from Gifford's own experiences as well as interviews from people from all walks of life that he meets along the way. As Gifford travels along this road he ponders the future of what lies ahead, based on the present which was based on the past.
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