Rob Gifford

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c. 1967

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Beijing, China

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Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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Durham University (BA ∙ Chinese Studies)

Harvard (MA ∙ Regional Studies ∙ East Asia)

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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 on China. From 1999 to 2005, he was Beijing correspondent of National Public Radio, and he travelled all over China and Asia reporting for Morning Edition and All Things Considered. He is now NPR’s London bureau chief.

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