Best Sellers
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China in Ten Words
- Written by: Yu Hua, Allan H. Barr - translator
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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China in Ten Words is a refreshingly candid vision of the “Chinese miracle” and all its consequences, from the singularly invaluable perspective of a writer living in China today....
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Such an amazing flow
- By Kalyani Y on 30-11-20
Written by: Yu Hua,
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Bend, Not Break
- A Life in Two Worlds
- Written by: Ping Fu, MeiMei Fox
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
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Ping Fu knows what it’s like to be a child soldier, a factory worker, and a political prisoner. To be beaten and raped for the crime of being born into a well-educated family.....
Written by: Ping Fu,
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The Travels of Marco Polo
- Written by: Marco Polo
- Narrated by: Walter Covell
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
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The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo Read by Walter Covell. Take a fascinating journey through strange and exotic countries...
Written by: Marco Polo
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The Art of War
- Written by: Sun Tzu
- Narrated by: Kenneth Elliot
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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"The Art of War," literally "The Laws of War by Master Sun" is the most famous ancient Chinese treatise, dedicated to a military strategy...
Written by: Sun Tzu
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From Rebel to Ruler
- One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party
- Written by: Tony Saich
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 22 hrs and 22 mins
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Mao Zedong and the twelve other young men who founded the Chinese Communist Party in 1921 could hardly have imagined that less than thirty years later they would be rulers. On its hundredth anniversary, the party remains in command, leading a nation primed for global dominance....
Written by: Tony Saich
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Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
- Written by: Ezra F. Vogel
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 33 hrs and 48 mins
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Once described by Mao Zedong as a "needle inside a ball of cotton", Deng was the pragmatic yet disciplined driving force behind China's radical transformation in the late 20th century....
Written by: Ezra F. Vogel
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China in Ten Words
- Written by: Yu Hua, Allan H. Barr - translator
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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China in Ten Words is a refreshingly candid vision of the “Chinese miracle” and all its consequences, from the singularly invaluable perspective of a writer living in China today....
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Such an amazing flow
- By Kalyani Y on 30-11-20
Written by: Yu Hua,
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Bend, Not Break
- A Life in Two Worlds
- Written by: Ping Fu, MeiMei Fox
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
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Ping Fu knows what it’s like to be a child soldier, a factory worker, and a political prisoner. To be beaten and raped for the crime of being born into a well-educated family.....
Written by: Ping Fu,
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The Travels of Marco Polo
- Written by: Marco Polo
- Narrated by: Walter Covell
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
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The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo Read by Walter Covell. Take a fascinating journey through strange and exotic countries...
Written by: Marco Polo
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The Art of War
- Written by: Sun Tzu
- Narrated by: Kenneth Elliot
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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"The Art of War," literally "The Laws of War by Master Sun" is the most famous ancient Chinese treatise, dedicated to a military strategy...
Written by: Sun Tzu
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From Rebel to Ruler
- One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party
- Written by: Tony Saich
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 22 hrs and 22 mins
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Mao Zedong and the twelve other young men who founded the Chinese Communist Party in 1921 could hardly have imagined that less than thirty years later they would be rulers. On its hundredth anniversary, the party remains in command, leading a nation primed for global dominance....
Written by: Tony Saich
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Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
- Written by: Ezra F. Vogel
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 33 hrs and 48 mins
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Once described by Mao Zedong as a "needle inside a ball of cotton", Deng was the pragmatic yet disciplined driving force behind China's radical transformation in the late 20th century....
Written by: Ezra F. Vogel
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The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China
- Written by: Ralph D. Sawyer
- Narrated by: James Chen
- Length: 17 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China presents us with an Eastern tradition of strategic thought....
Written by: Ralph D. Sawyer
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Chinese Communist Espionage
- An Intelligence Primer
- Written by: Peter Mattis, Matthew Brazil
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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Peter Mattis and Matthew Brazil present an unprecedented look into the murky world of Chinese espionage both past and present, enabling a better understanding of how pervasive and important its influence is, both in China and abroad....
Written by: Peter Mattis,
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The Art of War
- Written by: Sun Tzu
- Narrated by: Denma Translation Group
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
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At the core of this ancient strategy manual is the understanding that conflict is an inescapable part of human life....
Written by: Sun Tzu
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The Avoidable War
- The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China
- Written by: Kevin Rudd
- Narrated by: Kevin Rudd, Rafe Beckley
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
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A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is no longer unthinkable....
Written by: Kevin Rudd
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Out of the Gobi
- My Story of China and America
- Written by: Weijian Shan, Janet Yellen - foreword
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
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Weijian Shan's Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books on China of our time, one with the potential to re-shape how Americans view China, and how the Chinese view life in America....
Written by: Weijian Shan,
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A History of Future Cities
- Written by: Daniel Brook
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 13 hrs
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A pioneering exploration of four cities where East meets West and past becomes future......
Written by: Daniel Brook
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Belt and Road: A Chinese World Order
- Written by: Bruno Macaes
- Narrated by: Anish Nair
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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China's Belt and Road strategy is acknowledged to be the most ambitious geopolitical initiative of the age. Bruno Macaes traces this extraordinary initiative's history, highlighting its achievements to date and its staggering complexity....
Written by: Bruno Macaes
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On Practice and Contradiction (Revolutions Series)
- Slavoj Zizek presents Mao
- Written by: Mao Zedong, Slavoj Žižek
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions....
Written by: Mao Zedong,
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Japan's Infamous Unit 731
- Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
- Written by: Hal Gold, Yuma Totani - foreword
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of China. Far from front lines and prying eyes, Japanese doctors and their assistants subjected human guinea pigs to gruesome medical experiments....
Written by: Hal Gold,
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A Brief History of China
- Dynasty, Revolution and Transformation: From the Middle Kingdom to the People's Republic
- Written by: Jonathan Clements
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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A Brief History of China tells of the development of a rich, complex civilization where the use of paper, writing, money, and gunpowder were widespread in ancient times and where silk, ceramics, tea, metal implements, and other products were produced and exported around the globe....
Written by: Jonathan Clements
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The Opium War
- Written by: Brian Inglis
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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When Britain sent troops to compel the Chinese to accept imports of opium, they opened what is argued to be one of the most disgraceful chapters in the history of the Empire. How did the situation arise? How did opium exports become so crucial to the British economy? Find out....
Written by: Brian Inglis
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The Rape of Nanking
- Written by: Iris Chang
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
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In December 1937, in the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred.....
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an eye opener for me and well researched
- By Saxena on 30-03-22
Written by: Iris Chang
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Mao's Great Famine
- Written by: Frank Dikötter
- Narrated by: David Bauckham
- Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
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Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward....
Written by: Frank Dikötter
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Chinese Characters
- A BBC History of China in 20 Lives
- Written by: Rana Mitter
- Narrated by: Rana Mitter
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
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Award-winning author and historian Professor Rana Mitter introduces us to some of the remarkable individuals who have shaped the arc of Chinese history....
Written by: Rana Mitter
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When China Rules the World
- The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
- Written by: Martin Jacques
- Narrated by: Scott Peterson
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
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According to even the most conservative estimates, China will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by 2027....
Written by: Martin Jacques
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The Path
- A New Way to Think About Everything
- Written by: Professor Michael Puett, Christine Gross-Loh
- Narrated by: Professor Michael Puett
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
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In the first book of its kind, The Path draws on the work of six of the great - but largely unknown - Chinese philosophers to offer a fresh and revolutionary guide to human flourishing....
Written by: Professor Michael Puett,
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Maoism
- A Global History
- Written by: Julia Lovell
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao’s revolution in favour of authoritarian capitalism....
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Scholarly work!
- By leandisciple on 16-12-20
Written by: Julia Lovell
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The Shortest History of China
- From the Ancient Dynasties to a Modern Superpower: A Retelling for Our Times
- Written by: Linda Jaivin
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
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Chinese history is nothing if not messy. Heroes are also villains; prosperity mingles with violence; cultural vibrancy coexists with censorship and repression. Jaivin distills this vast history into a sparkling narrative, from mythical origins to the COVID-19 pandemic....
Written by: Linda Jaivin
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Murder in the High Himalaya
- Loyalty, Tragedy, and Escape from Tibet
- Written by: Jonathan Green
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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The murder of a young Tibetan nun at the hands of Chinese border guards at the rooftop of the world offers a unique parable for the tale of modern Tibet....
Written by: Jonathan Green
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Red Flags
- Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy
- Written by: George Magnus
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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Will China rule the world, or will its dream turn into a nightmare? George Magnus, the trusted economic commentator on China, provides a penetrating account of the threats to China's continued rise....
Written by: George Magnus
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China's Disruptors
- How Alibaba, Xiaomi, Tencent, and Other Companies are Changing the Rules of Business
- Written by: Edward Tse
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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In September 2014, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba raised $25 billion in the world's biggest ever initial public offering....
Written by: Edward Tse
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China's Civilian Army
- The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy
- Written by: Peter Martin
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
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China's Civilian Army charts China's transformation from an isolated and impoverished communist state to a global superpower from the perspective of those on the front line: China's diplomats. They give a rare perspective on the greatest geopolitical drama of the last half century....
Written by: Peter Martin
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China and Japan
- Facing History
- Written by: Ezra F. Vogel
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 22 hrs and 51 mins
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China and Japan have cultural and political connections that stretch back 1,500 years. But today, their relationship is strained. Ezra Vogel's China and Japan examines key turning points in Sino-Japanese history....
Written by: Ezra F. Vogel
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The China Mirage
- The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia
- Written by: James Bradley
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
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The China Mirage explores a difficult century that defines US-Chinese relations to this day....
Written by: James Bradley