China Road

{{Short description|2007 nonfiction book by Rob Gifford}} {{Infobox book | italic title = | name = China Road | image = File:China_Road_book_cover.jpg | image_size = | border = | alt = | caption = | author = Rob Gifford | audio_read_by = | title_orig = | orig_lang_code = | title_working = | translator = | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = | language = | series = | release_number = | subject = Travel literature | genre = | set_in = | publisher = Random House | publisher2 = | pub_date = January 1, 2007 | published = | media_type = | pages = | awards = | isbn = | isbn_note = | oclc = | dewey = | congress = | preceded_by = | followed_by = | native_wikisource = | wikisource = | notes = | exclude_cover = | website = }} thumb|Map of National Highway 312 '''''China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power''''' is a book on travel literature by Rob Gifford, first published on January 1, 2007 by Random House.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1042203.China_Road|title= China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power by Rob Gifford|date=August 2, 2020|work=Goodreads }}</ref>

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),<ref>"[http://smithsonianapa.org/bookdragon/china-road-a-journey-into-the-future-of-a-rising-power-by-rob-gifford/ China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power by Rob Gifford]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20140714220943/http://smithsonianapa.org/bookdragon/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.</ref> and his experiences were the basis of several NPR stories.<ref>"[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10474172 'China Road' Trip Gauges a Nation on the Move]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20140714163035/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10474172 Archive]). National Public Radio. Retrieved on July 13, 2014.</ref>

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."<ref name=Bush>Bush, Vanessa. "[http://www.booklistonline.com/China-Road-A-Journey-into-the-Future-of-a-Rising-Power-Rob-Gifford/pid=1906564 China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power.]" (review). ''Booklist''. Retrieved on July 13, 2014.</ref> Dinah Gardner of ''Asia Times'' 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."<ref name=Gardner>Gardner, Dinah. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20080509194407/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/IL01Ad01.html An over-traveled road]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20140329082538/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/IL01Ad01.html Archive]). ''Asia Times''. December 1, 2007. Retrieved on July 13, 2014.</ref>

==Reception== {{expand section|date=July 2014}} Gardner criticized "the intrusion of Gifford's religious views" and Gifford letting "moral outrage color his arguments" but concluded overall that the book "is, in every other way, a very vivid and lively piece of reportage."<ref name=Gardner/>

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Category:2007 non-fiction books Category:Books about China