Rob Gifford is a British radio correspondent and journalist. He has degrees in Chinese Studies fromDurham University and in Regional Studies (East Asia) fromHarvard University. He began to learnMandarin Chinese in 1987 whilst in China.[1]
Gifford was on staff at theBBC World Service for three years. In the United States, he worked for two years atWGBH inBoston. From 1999 to 2005, Gifford was the China correspondent forNational 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 onNational Highway 312,China's 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometres) "mother road" stretching from Shanghai to theGobi Desert. Gifford initially covered this journey in a seven-part radio series for NPR's programMorning Edition, as one of his last journalistic projects in China.[1][2][3]
Gifford is currently the China editor ofThe Economist (beginning August 2011), and was previously the London bureau chief for NPR.[4][5]
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