"China Social life and customs." . . "Manners and customs." . . "China" . . "China." . "Gifford, Rob Travel China." . . "Blackstone Audio (Firm)" . . "hoopla digital." . . "China Description and travel." . . "Travel." . . . . "OneClick Digital (Firm)" . . . . "Downloadable audio books"@en . "China road"@en . . . "Audiobooks"@en . . . "Traveling along the three-thousand-mile stretch of China's Route 312, the Beijing bureau chief for NPR offers a close-up look at the economic and social transformation within China and the implications for both China and the world."@en . . . . . . . . . . "Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows 3,000 miles, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of the social and economic revolution that is turning China upside down. In this surprising book, radio journalist Rob Gifford, a fluent Mandarin speaker, takes Route 312 from its start in the boomtown of Shanghai to its end on the border with Kazakhstan. Gifford reveals the rich mosaic of modern Chinese life in all its contradictions, as he poses the crucial questions that all of us are asking about China: Will it really be the next global superpower? Is it as solid and as powerful as it looks from the outside? And who are the ordinary Chinese people, to whom the 21st century is supposed to belong?"@en . . "Based on his successful National Public Radio series, Gifford's book draws on twenty years of first-hand observation of this rapidly transforming country. On his journey, he takes the listener through China's past and present while he tries to make sense of this complex nation's potential future."@en . . . . . "China road: a journey into the future of a rising power" . . . "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 first-hand 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."@en . . . . . . . . "China road [sound recording] a journey into the future of a rising power" . . . "China road [a journey into the future of a rising power]"@en . . . . . . . "Compact discs"@en . . . "Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows 3,000 miles, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of the social and economic revolution that is turning China upside down. In this surprising book, radio journalist Rob Gifford, a fluent Mandarin speaker, takes Route 312 from its start in the boomtown of Shanghai to its end on the border with Kazakhstan. Gifford reveals the rich mosaic of modern Chinese life in all its contradictions, as he poses the crucial questions that all of us are asking about China: Will it really be the next global superpower? Is it as solid and as powerful as it looks from the outside? And who are the ordinary Chinese people, to whom the 21st century is supposed to belong? --From publisher description."@en . "China road a journey into the future of a rising power"@en . . . . . . . . "Nonfiction." . .