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    <![CDATA[China Road]]>
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    <![CDATA[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.]]>
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  <body>Over half way through this now. On track right now to be one of the best books I've read this year.</body>
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  <body>Only two hours into this but it is fascinating so far.</body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book to be fascinating. Knowing relatively little about China, this was a very eye-opening book.<br/><br/>The premise is that Gifford, a journalist with many years spent in China, travels Route 312 from the coast of China all the way the Kazakhstan border. The journey is filled with c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37210280">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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