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Descifra el tenso conflicto geopolítico de Asia explorando la historia de una democracia vibrante cercada por imperios. Este viaje auditivo transforma un cruce dinámico de pueblos y lenguas en un relato fascinante, revelando cómo distintas culturas defendieron su identidad frente al poder...

東南アジアの地で西欧列強の波に抗い、700年にわたり独自の独立と秩序を守り抜いた王権と仏教の壮大な歴史ドラマがここにあります。朝の通勤電車の中や静かな夜の知的探求の時間に、単なる観光地という表層を越えた...

Explorez la tragédie géopolitique d'un peuple millénaire fracturé en deux nations rivales dans ce récit historique. Idéale pour nourrir votre réflexion lors de vos trajets quotidiens, cette écoute captivante retrace quinze siècles de bouleversements. Plongez au cœur d'une atmosphère...

Diese epische historische Saga beleuchtet den dramatischen Kampf um Macht, Glaube und Unabhängigkeit in Südostasien. Perfekt für die Reisevorbereitung oder das tägliche Pendeln, zieht dich diese fesselnde Erzählung tief in eine Welt voller sakraler Herrscher und glänzender Tempel. Von den...

Plongez dans l'histoire asiatique d'une nation défiant les empires coloniaux pour préserver sa précieuse indépendance. Lors de vos trajets quotidiens, laissez cette fresque géopolitique immersive vous transporter au cœur des cours royales d'Asie du Sud-Est. C'est l'écoute parfaite pour...

Spies and Lies a groundbreaking expose of elite influence operations by China's little-known Ministry of State Security. Revealing for the first time how the Chinese Communist Party has tasked its spies to deceive the world, it challenges the conventional account of China's past, present, and future.

A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today, the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler explores the human side of China's transformation, viewing modern-day China and its growing links to the Western world through the lives of a handful of ordinary people.

Written by the leading historian of modern Kashmir, this is a comprehensive portrayal of one of the most enigmatic politicians in modern South Asia, Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah, known as the Lion of Kashmir.

Bloomsbury presents The Book of Secrets by Xinran Xue, read by Daniel York Loh and Crystal Yu. ‘An extraordinary firsthand account of Communist Party machinery at its most brutal and paranoid’ --Sunday Telegraph Picked as Hilary Spurling's Book of the Year in The Spectator. The spellbinding...

Written by an eminent economist, Bimal Jalan, Emerging India: Economics, Politics and Reforms talks about India's growth from the post reform 1991 era to the modern days and the various challenges plaguing various arms of the government. In this book, Jalan praises the democratic setup that runs...

Spiegel-Bestsellerautor Felix Lee und Finn Mayer-Kuckuk, langjähriger Handelsblatt-Korrespondent, entwerfen einen Weg aus dem China-Dilemma Xi Jinping verfolgt knallharte Interessen: die Formung einer Welt mit China an der Spitze. Deutschland spielt derzeit dabei nur eine nützliche Nebenrolle...

Winner of the National Book Award 2014 A young army captain who risked execution to swim from free-market Taiwan to Communist China. A barber who made $150 million in the gambling dens of Macau. The richest woman in China, a recycling tycoon known as the 'Wastepaper Queen'. Age of Ambition describes some of the billion individual lives that make up China's story - one that unfolds on remote farms, in glittering mansions, and in the halls of power of the world’s largest authoritarian regime.

Known as the twice-born - first into the flesh and again when initiated into their vocation - the Brahmins are a caste devoted to sacred learning. But what Taseer finds in Benares, the holy city of death also known as Varanasi, is a window on an India as internally fractured as his own continent-bridging identity.  

Will there be war with China? This book provides the most complete and accurate assessment of the probability of conflict between the United States and the rising Asian superpower. Equally important, it lays out an in-depth analysis of the possible pathways to peace. Written like a geopolitical detective story, the narrative encourages listener interaction by starting each chapter with an intriguing question that often challenges conventional wisdom.

Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are dismissed as isolated and irrelevant to the outside world. But are they? This hard-hitting book argues that Central Asia is in reality a globalization leader with more extensive involvement in economics, politics, and security dynamics beyond its borders than any other world region. Yet Central Asia's international activities are mostly hidden from view, with disturbing implications for world security.

From the former New York Times Asia correspondent and author of China's Second Continent, an incisive investigation of China's ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in regional and global diplomacy. For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China...

As the second-largest economy, China is now extending its influence across the globe. Joanna Chiu has spent a decade tracking China’s propulsive rise, from the complicity of democratic nations, to a new colonialism coming from its multibillion-dollar “New Silk Road” initiative, to its growing sway on foreign countries and multilateral institutions.

Munoz provides new insight into Benazir Bhutto’s unprecedented rise and an unflinching, minute-by-minute narrative of the assassination itself. With impeccable research, Munoz also situates Bhutto in the decades-long history of U.S.-Pakistan relations and the emergence of global terrorism, pinpointing her death as the moment when those relations changed forever. The result is a gripping narrative of Pakistan’s turbulent political realities and the death of its leading politician.

Was bedeutet die »Zeitenwende« gerade für linkes Denken, das sich doch vor Kurzem noch für Fürsorge, Gewaltkritik und Friedenspolitik starkmachte? Wenn Pazifismus mittlerweile als lächerlich, verantwortungslos oder querdenkerisch gilt, sollten wir uns Sorgen um die Grundlagen unseres Miteinanders machen.

One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale. The Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority group in western China, were experiencing an echo of the worst horrors of the twentieth century. Over a million people have vanished into China's internment camps for Muslim minorities. Waiting to Be Arrested at Night is the story of the political, social, and cultural destruction of Tahir Hamut Izgil's homeland.