Rob Gifford is a British radio correspondent and journalist. He has degrees in Chinese Studies from Durham University and in Regional Studies (East Asia) from Harvard University . He began to learn Mandarin Chinese in 1987 whilst in China. ^[1]

Gifford was on staff at the BBC World Service for three years. In the United States, he worked for two years at WGBH in Boston . From 1999 to 2005, Gifford was the China correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR). He took leave of absence from NPR to write his first book, China Road , (2007; ISBN   1-4000-6467-8 ), which was based on his six-week trip on National Highway 312 , China's 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometres) "mother road" stretching from Shanghai to the Gobi Desert . Gifford initially covered this journey in a seven-part radio series for NPR's program Morning Edition , as one of his last journalistic projects in China. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Gifford is currently the China editor of The Economist (beginning August 2011), and was previously the London bureau chief for NPR. ^{[4] [5]}

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• "NPR biography of Rob Gifford" . NPR . Archived from the original on 24 June 2011 . Retrieved 8 September 2013 .
• Podcast of Rob Gifford discussing “China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power” at the Shanghai International Literary Festival

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