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 .
6-465: 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), and his experiences were the basis of several NPR stories. Vanessa Bush of Booklist stated "Gifford notes an aggressive sense of competition in
12-443: Is not recognized by Republic of China (Taiwan). This observation was eventually dropped in new National Highway plans, replaced by Dandong-Dongxing Highway. A extension plan of the highway system was announced in 2013, including extension of existing highways(101-112, 201-227, 301-330) and new highways (North-South 228-248, East-West 331-361, Connections 501-581). Only small portions of them needs to be constructed from scratch; most of
18-519: The book "is, in every other way, a very vivid and lively piece of reportage." This article about a China -related book is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . China National Highway 312 China National Highway 312 (312国道), also referred to as Route 312 , is a key east-west route beginning in Shanghai and ending at Khorgas , Xinjiang in the Ili River valley, on
24-489: The border with Kazakhstan . In total it spans 5,000 km (3,100 mi), passing through Jiangsu , Anhui , Henan , Shaanxi , Gansu before ending in Xinjiang. Besides Shanghai, cities of note on the route include Suzhou , Wuxi , Nanjing , Hefei , Xinyang , Nanyang , Xi'an , Lanzhou , Jiayuguan and Ürümqi . The road was the subject of Rob Gifford 's 2007 book China Road , in which he describes traveling
30-693: The entire length of Route 312 from the East China Sea to Central Asia . The G40 Shanghai–Xi'an Expressway has replaced National Highway 312 as the main route between those two cities. On October 10 2019, a bridge of G312 crossing Xigang Road in Wuxi was collapsed by several overloaded trucks, killing 3 people and injuring 2 others. China National Highway 112 runs around Beijing Before 2013, Mainland China observed National Highway 228 as Taiwan Ring, composed of several National Expressway (Republic of China) and Taiwan provincial highways, this designation
36-509: The man-eat-man atmosphere of a nation that is likely to be the next global superpower." 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." Gardner criticized "the intrusion of Gifford's religious views" and Gifford letting "moral outrage color his arguments" but concluded overall that
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