China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power

5 best books like China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power (Rob Gifford): Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory, Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now, The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed, Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China, China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power

Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory

Author	Peter Hessler
ISBN	0061804096

From the bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy, on the human side of the economic revolution in China. In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, acquired his Chinese driver's license. For...

Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now

Author	Jan Wong
ISBN	0385482329

Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer--and one of only two Westerners permitted to enroll at Beijing University--her education included wielding a pneumatic drill at the Number One Machine Tool...

The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed

Author	Michael Meyer
ISBN	0802716520

A fascinating, intimate portrait of Beijing through the lens of its oldest neighborhood, facing destruction as the city, and China, relentlessly modernizes.

Soon we will be able to say about old Beijing that what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders, and Communist planners couldn’t...

Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China

Author	James M. Fallows
ISBN	0307456242

“Americans need not be hostile toward China's rise, but they should be wary about its eventual effects. The United States is the only nation with the scale and power to try to set the terms of its interaction with China rather than just succumb. So starting now, Americans need to consider the economic,...

China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power

Author	Nicholas D. Kristof
ISBN	1857881583

The author , who married to an Chinese American girl is extremely knowledgeable about China from his formal as well as informal education about the land and its people.He has the advantage that other do not have , the knowledge he can obtain from his wife.
In general he is very objective about many...