Bestsellers
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Red Dawn over China
- How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity
- By: Frank Dikötter
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
Modern China has long been portrayed as Communists fighting for freedom, gradually gaining popular support by taking land from the rich and giving it to the poor. Red Dawn Over China shows how unlikely the Party's victory was, had it not been for financial and military support from the Soviet Union
By: Frank Dikötter
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The Rape of Nanking
- By: Iris Chang
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,653
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Performance4,002
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Story3,986
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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Powerful
- By Douglas on 09-05-09
By: Iris Chang
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The Art of War Sun Tzu - Complete Edition: The New Modern English Translation (Translated and Annotated)
- By: Sun Tzu
- Narrated by: Adam Nelson
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall39
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Performance36
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Story36
The Art of War by Sun Tzu is much more than an ancient treatise on military strategy: it is a timeless guide on how to face challenges, make wise decisions, and win intelligently.
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The annotation is really brought it into today's world
- By John on 02-16-26
By: Sun Tzu
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Wild Swans
- Three Daughters of China
- By: Jung Chang
- Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
- Length: 22 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,016
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Performance1,776
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Story1,780
The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An...
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Accurate, moving and chilling
- By David on 12-15-12
By: Jung Chang
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History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream
- By: Liem Gerard
- Narrated by: Liem Gerard
- Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
This is not merely the story of a nation—it is an epic saga spanning over five thousand years, a breathtaking chronicle of emperors and rebels, poets and warriors, philosophers and visionaries, whose dreams shaped not just a people, but the very soul of human endurance.
By: Liem Gerard
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The Hundred-Year Marathon
- China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
- By: Michael Pillsbury
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,602
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Performance2,246
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Story2,238
One of the US government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise - and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us....
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Fascinating perspective.
- By Rocky Mackintosh on 01-05-17
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Red Dawn over China
- How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity
- By: Frank Dikötter
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
Modern China has long been portrayed as Communists fighting for freedom, gradually gaining popular support by taking land from the rich and giving it to the poor. Red Dawn Over China shows how unlikely the Party's victory was, had it not been for financial and military support from the Soviet Union
By: Frank Dikötter
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The Rape of Nanking
- By: Iris Chang
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,653
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Performance4,002
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Story3,986
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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Powerful
- By Douglas on 09-05-09
By: Iris Chang
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The Art of War Sun Tzu - Complete Edition: The New Modern English Translation (Translated and Annotated)
- By: Sun Tzu
- Narrated by: Adam Nelson
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall39
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Performance36
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Story36
The Art of War by Sun Tzu is much more than an ancient treatise on military strategy: it is a timeless guide on how to face challenges, make wise decisions, and win intelligently.
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The annotation is really brought it into today's world
- By John on 02-16-26
By: Sun Tzu
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Wild Swans
- Three Daughters of China
- By: Jung Chang
- Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
- Length: 22 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,016
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Performance1,776
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Story1,780
The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An...
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Accurate, moving and chilling
- By David on 12-15-12
By: Jung Chang
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History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream
- By: Liem Gerard
- Narrated by: Liem Gerard
- Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
This is not merely the story of a nation—it is an epic saga spanning over five thousand years, a breathtaking chronicle of emperors and rebels, poets and warriors, philosophers and visionaries, whose dreams shaped not just a people, but the very soul of human endurance.
By: Liem Gerard
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The Hundred-Year Marathon
- China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
- By: Michael Pillsbury
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,602
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Performance2,246
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Story2,238
One of the US government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise - and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us....
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Fascinating perspective.
- By Rocky Mackintosh on 01-05-17
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Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
- By: Ezra F. Vogel
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 33 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall403
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Performance355
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Story355
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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Another butcher of the Chinese language
- By Jack Hanson on 09-19-21
By: Ezra F. Vogel
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China Marine
- An Infantryman's Life After World War II
- By: E. B. Sledge, Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall663
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Performance599
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Story600
Picking up where his previous memoir leaves off, Sledge, a young marine, charts his own difficult passage to peace following his horrific experiences in the Pacific....
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Is there any QC check on Audible?
- By PHSINV on 02-12-18
By: E. B. Sledge, and others
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The Great Heist
- China’s Epic Campaign to Steal America’s Secrets
- By: David R. Shedd, Andrew Badger
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance12
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Story12
A definitive, headline-making exposé of how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has carried out the largest-scale theft of intellectual property, technology, and data in history—reshaping the global balance of power and redrawing the geopolitical map for decades to come The Great Heist exposes...
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The worst own goal in human history
- By Amazon Customer on 02-28-26
By: David R. Shedd, and others
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Destined for War
- Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?
- By: Graham Allison
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,129
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Performance975
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Story969
When Athens went to war with Sparta some 2,500 years ago, the Greek historian Thucydides identified one simple cause: A rising power threatened to displace a ruling one....
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Balances, Counter-Balances and Traps
- By Joyce U. Olewe on 10-09-17
By: Graham Allison
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The Conscience of the Party
- Hu Yaobang, China's Communist Reformer
- By: Robert L. Suettinger
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 19 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
The Conscience of the Party is the biography of the Chinese Communist Party's most avid reformer and its general secretary for a key stretch of the 1980s. A supremely intelligent leader with an exceptional populist touch, Hu Yaobang was tapped early by Mao Zedong as a capable party hand.
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Imperial Twilight
- The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
- By: Stephen R. Platt
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall918
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Performance783
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Story779
As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War. As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War...
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Balanced readable narrative about the Opium Wars
- By Carl A. Gallozzi on 09-05-18
By: Stephen R. Platt
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Last Boat Out of Shanghai
- The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
- By: Helen Zia
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall543
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Performance461
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Story458
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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Great book, poor performance
- By Helpful Buyer on 07-02-19
By: Helen Zia
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Mao
- The Unknown Story
- By: Jung Chang, Jon Halliday
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 29 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,672
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Performance1,358
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Story1,361
“Ever since the spectacular success of Chang’s Wild Swans we have waited impatiently for her to complete with her husband this monumental study of China’s most notorious modern leader. The expectation has been that she would rewrite modern Chinese history. The wait has been worthwhile and...
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Fills many gaps! Very good..but!
- By Jene on 08-07-06
By: Jung Chang, and others
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Fly, Wild Swans
- My Mother, Myself and China
- By: Jung Chang
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Story6
The magnificent follow-up to Wild Swans, the multimillion copy, internationally bestselling sensation that traces the history of modern China through the true stories of three generations of courageous women in one family. “AT THE AGE OF FIFTEEN MY GRANDMOTHER became the concubine of a warlord...
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Disappointing followup yo Wild Swans
- By gail on 02-22-26
By: Jung Chang
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On China
- By: Henry Kissinger
- Narrated by: Nicholas Hormann
- Length: 20 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,420
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Performance1,178
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Story1,172
“Fascinating, shrewd . . . The book deftly traces the rhythms and patterns of Chinese history.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “No one can lay claim to so much influence on the shaping of foreign policy over the past 50 years as Henry Kissinger.” —The Financial Times In this...
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Another History of China
- By Elton on 09-23-11
By: Henry Kissinger
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The Snakehead
- An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
- By: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall393
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Performance321
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Story319
In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York’s Chinatown managed a multi-million dollar business smuggling people...
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But Is It a Crime?
- By Roy on 08-23-09
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World on the Brink
- How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century
- By: Dmitri Alperovitch, Garrett M. Graff
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall111
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Performance100
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Story100
NATIONAL BESTSELLER The national security expert who predicted Putin’s invasion of Ukraine argues that Xi Jinping is preparing to conquer Taiwan—with dire global stakes if he is not deterred “An excellent source.” —Economist We are fully in the midst of Cold War II, this time with...
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a must read book!
- By Val Lendaro on 06-02-24
By: Dmitri Alperovitch, and others
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1421
- The Year China Discovered America
- By: Gavin Menzies
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall387
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Performance344
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Story346
On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. Its mission was "to proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas" and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. When it returned in October 1423, the emperor...
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Would have been a good novel...
- By curtcannon on 05-08-19
By: Gavin Menzies
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The Wall Dancers
- Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet
- By: Yi-Ling Liu
- Narrated by: Jen Zhao
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Story3
An eye-opening exploration of the Chinese internet that reveals the intricate dance between freedom and control in contemporary China “The Wall Dancers is history told in a gripping, novelistic style. It is at once a crash course in contemporary Chinese politics and culture and an epic story...
By: Yi-Ling Liu
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China After Mao
- The Rise of a Superpower
- By: Frank Dikötter
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance32
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Story32
From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine comes a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of Chairman Mao....
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This guy's writing style is trash
- By L YS on 10-06-24
By: Frank Dikötter
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The Search for Modern China
- By: Jonathan D. Spence
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 36 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall267
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Performance222
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Story221
The history of China is as rich and strange as that of any country on earth. Yet for many, China’s history remains unknown....
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Excellent book, lazy narrator
- By Delano on 10-19-12
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Why Taiwan Matters
- A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate Our Future
- By: Kerry Brown
- Narrated by: Kerry Brown
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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Story7
This program is read by the author. Taiwan expert Kerry Brown sums up the history of Taiwan and the danger of a Chinese takeover in this succinct and authoritative book. When the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949, two Chinas were born. Mao’s Communists won and took China’s mainland...
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How little we actually understand about Taiwan
- By John F. Robenalt on 04-26-25
By: Kerry Brown
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Japan's Infamous Unit 731
- Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
- By: Hal Gold, Yuma Totani - foreword
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall327
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Performance293
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Story292
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....
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Excellent read. Bad narration.
- By Jason on 04-01-22
By: Hal Gold, and others
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
- By: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 29 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall433
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Performance346
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Story341
In this Pulitzer Prize - winning biography, Barbara Tuchman explores American relations with China through the experiences of one of our men on the ground....
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A period that directly affected our world today
- By Charlotte on 08-29-12
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To Overthrow the World
- The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
- By: Sean McMeekin
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall64
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Performance62
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Story62
From an award-winning historian, a new global history of Communism When the USSR collapsed in 1991, the world was certain that Communism was dead. Today, three decades later, it is clear that it was not. While Russia may no longer be Communist, Communism and sympathy for Communist ideas have...
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An informative tale of plots and revolution that, tragically, loses the plot itself
- By Anonymous on 12-22-24
By: Sean McMeekin
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The Elements of Power
- A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth
- By: Nicolas Niarchos
- Narrated by: Nicolas Niarchos
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Story3
“A tale of rapacious colonialism, Cold War spy games, dazzling technical innovation, big business rivalry, big power geopolitics . . . Niarchos has produced an unflinching, landmark work on the nature of extractive capitalism.” —Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times best-selling author of...
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Tedious recital of corruption and poverty in Congo
- By Ronald on 02-03-26
By: Nicolas Niarchos
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The Last Kings of Shanghai
- The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
- By: Jonathan Kaufman
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall653
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Performance552
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Story552
"In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties."—The Boston Globe "Not just a brilliant, well-researched, and highly readable book about China's past, it also reveals the contingencies and ironic twists of fate in China's modern history."—LA Review of...
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Great story with careless flaws
- By pjdusa on 10-20-20
By: Jonathan Kaufman
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Empress Dowager Cixi
- The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
- By: Jung Chang
- Narrated by: Jolene Kim
- Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall451
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Performance388
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Story386
A New York Times Notable Book Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age. At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the...
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An insult to audiobooks. Get a print version.
- By Reademandweep on 02-23-15
By: Jung Chang
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Mahjong
- A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture
- By: Annelise Heinz
- Narrated by: Rachel Botchan
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance8
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Story8
Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture illustrates how the spaces between tiles and the moments between games have fostered distinct social cultures in the United States....
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The depth of the mahjong tiles run deeper in history.
- By Johnson on 03-13-24
By: Annelise Heinz