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'''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 [[Standard Mandarin|Mandarin]] Chinese in 1987 whilst in China.<ref name="Lynch">{{cite news | url=https://www.usatoday.com/money/books/2007-09-03-china-road_N.htm | title=Review: Book shows China has a fragile side, too | work=USA Today | author=David J. Lynch | date=4 September 2007 | access-date=31 January 2009}}</ref>

Gifford was on staff at the [[BBC World Service]] for three years. In the United States, he worked for two years at [[WGBH-TV|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 [[China National Highway 312|National Highway 312]], [[People's Republic of China|China's]] {{convert|3000|mi|km|abbr=off}} "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.<ref name="Lynch"/><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/IL01Ad01.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509194407/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/IL01Ad01.html | url-status=unfit | archive-date=9 May 2008 | title=An over-traveled road | work=Asia Times| author=Dinah Gardner | date=1 December 2007 | access-date=31 January 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/paperback-china-road-one-mans-journey-into-the-heart-of-modern-china-by-rob-gifford-xbgww0l36mr | title=Paperback – ''China Road: One Man's Journey into the Heart of Modern China'' by Rob Gifford | work=[[The Times]] | author=Ross Leckie | date=30 May 2008 | access-date=31 January 2009}}</ref>

Gifford is currently the China editor of ''[[The Economist]]'' (beginning August 2011), and was previously the London bureau chief for NPR.<ref>NPR (2011). [https://www.npr.org/2011/06/27/137451465/chinas-growing-reach-spans-continents China's Growing Reach Spans Continents]. Retrieved 5 February 2012.</ref><ref>The Economist (2012). [http://www.economist.com/mediadirectory/rob-gifford Rob Gifford]. Retrieved 5 February 2012.</ref>

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* {{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/people/2100529/rob-gifford |title=NPR biography of Rob Gifford |website=[[NPR]] |access-date=8 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110624183057/http://www.npr.org/people/2100529/rob-gifford |archive-date=24 June 2011 }}
*[http://www.cityweekend.com.cn/shanghai/articles/blogs-shanghai/shanghai-book-club/live-blogging-with-rob-gifford-china-road-a-journey-into-the-future-of-a-rising-power/ 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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