Rob Gifford's China Road

National Public Radio's longtime China correspondent, Rob Gifford, will join Kerri Miller for a discussion in The UBS Forum about the dramatic changes facing a modern China.

In his new book "China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power," Gifford traverses Route 312 which covers 3,000 miles from Shanghai to the border of Kazakhstan. The journey presents a dramatic backdrop for a trenchant exploration of the social and economic revolution that is sweeping the country.

Rob Gifford first went to China in 1987 as a twenty-year-old language student. He has spent much of the last twenty years studying and reporting there. From 1999 to 2005, he was the Beijing correspondent of National Public Radio, and he traveled all over China and the rest of Asia reporting for Morning Edition and All Things Considered. He is now NPR's London bureau chief.