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National Public Radio's Beijing correspondent Rob Gifford recounts his travels along Route 312, the Chinese Mother Road, the longest route in the world's most populous nation. Based on his successful NPR radio series, China Road draws on Gifford's twenty years of observing firsthand this rapidly transforming country, as he travels east to west, from Shanghai to China's border with Kazakhstan. As he takes the reader on this journey, he will also take us through China's past and present while he tries to make sense of this complex nation's potential future. Introduction: The Mother Road
Chapter 1: The Promised Land
Chapter 2: Dislocation
Chapter 3: Things Flow
Chapter 4: The Unfinished Revolution
Chapter 5: "A Single Spark Can Light a Prairie Fire"
Chapter 6: Silicon Valley
Chapter 7: "Women Hold Up Half the Sky"
Chapter 8: "Put the People First"
Chapter 9: Power
Chapter 10: The Hermit of Hua Shan
Chapter 11: Elvis Lives
Chapter 12: The Last Great Empire
Chapter 13: Monks and Nomads
Chapter 14: No Longer Relying on Heaven
Chapter 15: "We Want to Live"
Chapter 16: Respect
Chapter 17: The End of the Wall
Chapter 18: The Caves of a Thousand Buddhas
Chapter 19: Endurance
Chapter 20: The Great Wall of the Mind
Chapter 21: "China Is a Colonial Power"
Chapter 22: From Sea to Shining Sea
Chapter 23: A Road Is Made
"You'll think it's the writer himself talking-so closely does Simon Vance approximate his age, British nationality, and dexterity with the Chinese language…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award."
"Gifford is great company and great fun, and China Road is a terrific, highly readable book."
"Rob Gifford…[is] the perfect guide to this magnificent road from Shanghai to the Kazakhstan border."
"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."
"A great road story...China Road is insightful, funny, analytical, anecdotal, full of humble humor and magnificent discoveries."
"Informative, delightful, and powerfully moving…Rob Gifford's acute powers of observation, his sense of humor and adventure, and his determination to explore the wrenching dilemmas of China's explosive development open readers' eyes and reward their minds."
"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."
Chapter 1: The Promised Land
Chapter 2: Dislocation
Chapter 3: Things Flow
Chapter 4: The Unfinished Revolution
Chapter 5: "A Single Spark Can Light a Prairie Fire"
Chapter 6: Silicon Valley
Chapter 7: "Women Hold Up Half the Sky"
Chapter 8: "Put the People First"
Chapter 9: Power
Chapter 10: The Hermit of Hua Shan
Chapter 11: Elvis Lives
Chapter 12: The Last Great Empire
Chapter 13: Monks and Nomads
Chapter 14: No Longer Relying on Heaven
Chapter 15: "We Want to Live"
Chapter 16: Respect
Chapter 17: The End of the Wall
Chapter 18: The Caves of a Thousand Buddhas
Chapter 19: Endurance
Chapter 20: The Great Wall of the Mind
Chapter 21: "China Is a Colonial Power"
Chapter 22: From Sea to Shining Sea
Chapter 23: A Road Is Made
"You'll think it's the writer himself talking-so closely does Simon Vance approximate his age, British nationality, and dexterity with the Chinese language…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award."
"Gifford is great company and great fun, and China Road is a terrific, highly readable book."
"Rob Gifford…[is] the perfect guide to this magnificent road from Shanghai to the Kazakhstan border."
"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."
"A great road story...China Road is insightful, funny, analytical, anecdotal, full of humble humor and magnificent discoveries."
"Informative, delightful, and powerfully moving…Rob Gifford's acute powers of observation, his sense of humor and adventure, and his determination to explore the wrenching dilemmas of China's explosive development open readers' eyes and reward their minds."
"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."