Best Sellers
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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....
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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
- Unabridged
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The China Mirage explores a difficult century that defines US-Chinese relations to this day....
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The Opium War
- Written by: Brian Inglis
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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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....
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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....
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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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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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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...
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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....
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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
- Unabridged
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The China Mirage explores a difficult century that defines US-Chinese relations to this day....
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The Opium War
- Written by: Brian Inglis
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
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....
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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....
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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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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
"The Art of War," literally "The Laws of War by Master Sun" is the most famous ancient Chinese treatise, dedicated to a military strategy...
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The Rape of Nanking
- Written by: Iris Chang
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 7
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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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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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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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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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4 out of 5 stars
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Such an amazing flow
- By Kalyani Y on 30-11-20
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China's Next Strategic Advantage
- From Imitation to Innovation
- Written by: George S. Yip, Bruce McKern
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The history-making development of the Chinese economy has entered a new phase: China is moving aggressively from a strategy of imitation to one of innovation....
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One Child
- The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
- Written by: Mei Fong
- Narrated by: Janet Song
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birthrates would help lift China's poorest and increase the country's global stature....
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China
- Written by: Murray Sayle
- Narrated by: Richard C. Hottelet
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Since Marco Polo, the fabled markets of China have drawn the West like a magnet....
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The Art of War
- A New Translation by Michael Nylan
- Written by: Sun Tzu
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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For the first time in any modern language, a female scholar and translator reimagines The Art of War....
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The Art of War
- Written by: Sun Tzu
- Narrated by: Denma Translation Group
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
- Abridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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At the core of this ancient strategy manual is the understanding that conflict is an inescapable part of human life....
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions....
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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister
- Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
- Written by: Jung Chang
- Narrated by: Joanna David
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Story3 out of 5 stars 1
The best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai who, for most of the 20th century, were at the centre of power in China....
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Everything Under the Heavens
- How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power
- Written by: Howard W. French
- Narrated by: Nicholas Hormann
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained an attitude of false modesty about its ambitions....
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2
According to even the most conservative estimates, China will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by 2027....
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The Year 1000
- When Explorers Connected the World – and Globalisation Began
- Written by: Valerie Hansen
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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When did globalisation begin? Yale professor Valerie Hansen shows, it was the year 1000, when for the first time new trade routes linked the entire globe, so an object could in theory circumnavigate the world....
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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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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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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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5 out of 5 stars
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Scholarly work!
- By leandisciple on 16-12-20
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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
- Unabridged
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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....
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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
- Unabridged
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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....
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The Travels of Marco Polo
- Written by: Marco Polo
- Narrated by: Walter Covell
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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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...
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The Perfect Police State
- An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future
- Written by: Geoffrey Cain
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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A riveting investigation into how a restive region of China became the site of a nightmare Orwellian social experiment - the definitive police state - and the global technology giants that made it possible....
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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....
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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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....
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Mao's Great Famine
- Written by: Frank Dikötter
- Narrated by: David Bauckham
- Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 1
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
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....
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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Story2 out of 5 stars 2
In September 2014, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba raised $25 billion in the world's biggest ever initial public offering....
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The Myth of Chinese Capitalism
- The Worker, the Factory, and the Future of the World
- Written by: Dexter Roberts
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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The untold story of how restrictive policies are preventing China from becoming the world's largest economy....
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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....
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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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....
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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
- Unabridged
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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....
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Asian Waters
- The Struggle over the South China Sea and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion
- Written by: Humphrey Hawksley
- Narrated by: Rufus Wright
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 4
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Few territories are as hotly contested as the western Pacific Ocean. Across the 1.5 million square mile expanse of the East and South China Sea, six countries lay overlapping claims that date back centuries....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Biased
- By Ratesh Sabherwal on 10-07-21
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In the Dragon's Shadow
- Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century
- Written by: Sebastian Strangio
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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A timely look at the impact of China's booming emergence on the countries of Southeast Asia....
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Last Boat Out of Shanghai
- The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
- Written by: Helen Zia
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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The dramatic real-life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revolution....
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Superpower Interrupted
- The Chinese History of the World
- Written by: Michael Schuman
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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This global history as the Chinese would write it gives brilliant and unconventional insights for understanding China's role in the world, especially the drive to "Make China Great Again"....
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China’s Good War
- How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism
- Written by: Rana Mitter
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Chinese leaders once tried to suppress memories of their nation’s brutal experience during World War II. Now they celebrate the “victory” - a key foundation of China’s rising nationalism....