National Public Radio reporter Rob Gifford recounts the experiences he had while traveling along China's three thousand-mile Route 312, describing the people he met on his journey and the things he learned about the country and its history.
The author tells about his adventures traveling with a French photographer on a journey of a lifetime into an obscure and forbidden area of southern Tibet in search of the Drung people, a minority population that had not been visited by a Westerner in over a century.
An American describes his experiences after his arrival in Hunan Province in 1982 to teach English, including his wushu training and life in post-Mao China.
Presents a memoir of Chinese food culture recalled by Fuchsia Dunlop, the first Westerner to be trained at the Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine, China's leading cooking school.
