Rob Gifford
Autor de China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
Sobre El Autor
Rob Gifford is National Public Radio's London bureau chief.
Obras de Rob Gifford
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Gifford, Rob
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1967
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Beijing, China
London, England, UK
Boston, Massachusetts, USA - Educación
- Durham University (BA|Chinese Studies)
Harvard (MA|Regional Studies, East Asia) - Ocupaciones
- journalist
broadcaster - Biografía breve
- Rob Gifford first went to China in 1987 as a twenty-year-old language student. He has spent much of the last twenty years studying and reporting on China. From 1999 to 2005, he was Beijing correspondent of National Public Radio, and he travelled all over China and Asia reporting for Morning Edition and All Things Considered. He is now NPR’s London bureau chief.
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China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising… por Rob Gifford
I swear I read this but I can't remember much beyond an incident where the author is passing through some quite remote region on quite a ramshackle vehicle.
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Running 3,000 miles from the east-coast boomtown of Shanghai to the border of Kazakhstan in the north-west, Route 312 - China's 'Route 66' - is a road that Rob Gifford has always wanted to travel. Gifford's journey and his desire to get to the heart of this country make China Road an outstanding and funny travel narrative - part pilgrimage, part reportage - which illuminates a country on the move.
Running 3,000 miles from the east-coast boomtown of Shanghai to the border of Kazakhstan in the north-west, Route 312 - China's 'Route 66' - is a road that Rob Gifford has always wanted to travel. Gifford's journey and his desire to get to the heart of this country make China Road an outstanding and funny travel narrative - part pilgrimage, part reportage - which illuminates a country on the move.
Excellent read, takes you through China from its eastern coast to its western frontier and provides a lot of insight into how all ranks of Chinese citizens--from truckers and farmers to karaoke ladies/hookers to businessmen and students, from Atheists to Christians, from Han Chinese to Muslim Uighurs, and so on and so forth--view the current state of China, in particular as it relates to its recent and humiliating past and what it portends for the visible future. Explains a lot of China's history and political institutions, not only since Mao's "conquest" in 1949 but as far back as 300 BC. Tremendous depth and range here.… (más)
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