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The Rape of Nanking
- 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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A harrowing listen
- By Stephanie Jane (Literary Flits) on 16-01-15
By: Iris Chang
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The Avoidable War
- The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China
- By: Kevin Rudd
- Narrated by: Kevin Rudd, Rafe Beckley
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is no longer unthinkable....
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No impartiality
- By Anonymous User on 10-03-23
By: Kevin Rudd
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The Art of War
- By: Lionel Giles translator, Sun Tzu
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
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Although the historicity of Sun Tzu is today in dispute, his short treatise on the art of war has remained a pre-eminent classic of military philosophy and practice....
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Art of War
- By Richard smith on 26-01-23
By: Lionel Giles translator, and others
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Red Memory
- The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
- By: Tania Branigan
- Narrated by: Tania Branigan
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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More than fifty years on, the Cultural Revolution's scar runs through the heart of Chinese society, and through the souls of its citizens. Stationed in Beijing for the Guardian, Tania Branigan came to realise that this brutal and turbulent decade continues to propel and shape China to this day....
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Important book on understanding China
- By J. Drew on 14-04-23
By: Tania Branigan
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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
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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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Animal Farm but for real
- By Mark Cousins on 25-11-23
By: Frank Dikötter
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From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane
- The Reawakening of Mongol Asia
- By: Peter Jackson
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
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An epic account of how a new world order under Tamerlane was born out of the decline of the Mongol Empire.
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An Expertly Woven Narrative
- By Anonymous User on 01-05-24
By: Peter Jackson
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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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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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A harrowing listen
- By Stephanie Jane (Literary Flits) on 16-01-15
By: Iris Chang
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The Avoidable War
- The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China
- By: Kevin Rudd
- Narrated by: Kevin Rudd, Rafe Beckley
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is no longer unthinkable....
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No impartiality
- By Anonymous User on 10-03-23
By: Kevin Rudd
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The Art of War
- By: Lionel Giles translator, Sun Tzu
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Although the historicity of Sun Tzu is today in dispute, his short treatise on the art of war has remained a pre-eminent classic of military philosophy and practice....
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Art of War
- By Richard smith on 26-01-23
By: Lionel Giles translator, and others
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Red Memory
- The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
- By: Tania Branigan
- Narrated by: Tania Branigan
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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More than fifty years on, the Cultural Revolution's scar runs through the heart of Chinese society, and through the souls of its citizens. Stationed in Beijing for the Guardian, Tania Branigan came to realise that this brutal and turbulent decade continues to propel and shape China to this day....
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Important book on understanding China
- By J. Drew on 14-04-23
By: Tania Branigan
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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
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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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Animal Farm but for real
- By Mark Cousins on 25-11-23
By: Frank Dikötter
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From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane
- The Reawakening of Mongol Asia
- By: Peter Jackson
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
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An epic account of how a new world order under Tamerlane was born out of the decline of the Mongol Empire.
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An Expertly Woven Narrative
- By Anonymous User on 01-05-24
By: Peter Jackson
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Remembering Shanghai
- A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels
- By: Isabel Sun Chao, Claire Chao
- Narrated by: Rachel Yong, Claire Chao, Isabel Sun Chao
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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Meticulously researched, Remembering Shanghai follows five generations, from vibrant Shanghai to the bright lights of Hong Kong. By turns harrowing and heartwarming, this vivid memoir explores identity and loss against the epic backdrop of a country in turmoil....
By: Isabel Sun Chao, and others
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The Book of Secrets
- A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China
- By: Xinran Xue
- Narrated by: Crystal Yu, Daniel York Loh, Rakkit Studios
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of a family in modern China with a history of deceit, betrayal and political intrigue, and the communist party's long shadow over them, from the Cultural Revolution to today....
By: Xinran Xue
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The Perfect Police State
- An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future
- By: Geoffrey Cain
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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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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China's take on separatists challange through tech
- By Ionor on 06-03-23
By: Geoffrey Cain
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Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism
- A Study of 'Brainwashing' in China
- By: Robert Jay Lifton
- Narrated by: Bobby Brill
- Length: 19 hrs and 23 mins
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Informed by Erik Erikson's concept of the formation of ego identity, this book, which first appeared in 1961, is an analysis of the experiences of 15 Chinese citizens and 25 Westerners who underwent "brainwashing" by the Communist Chinese government....
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Marco Polo
- The Journey That Changed the World
- By: John Man
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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In 1271 a young Italian merchant named Marco Polo embarked on a groundbreaking expedition from Venice, through the Middle East and Central Asia to China....
By: John Man
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China’s Good War
- How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism
- By: Rana Mitter
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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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....
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Scholarly
- By IYER on 05-10-21
By: Rana Mitter
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One Child
- The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
- By: Mei Fong
- Narrated by: Janet Song
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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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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Recommend
- By Kindle Customer on 28-06-23
By: Mei Fong
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Tai Chi, Baguazhang and the Golden Elixir
- Internal Martial Arts Before the Boxer Uprising
- By: Scott Park Phillips
- Narrated by: Scott Park Phillips
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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The reason you never heard these histories is so dark that few have dared to speak about it, until now. Completely new and meticulously researched, Tai Chi, Baguazhang and the Golden Elixir erases 120 years of confusion and error....
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martial medical mystical and also theatrical
- By Abi on 13-02-23
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Escape of the Amethyst
- By: C.E. Lucas Phillips
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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This is the astounding true story of the ordeal and escape of the British frigate Amethyst from Chinese Communist batteries in the Yangtze River in April 1949....
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Amazing story beautifully told
- By Amazon Customer on 19-09-23
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The Great Wall of China
- The History of China's Most Famous Landmark
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Violet Meadow
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
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The Great Wall of China is perhaps the wonder of the world that has most captured the human imagination....
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I'd probably prefer the text,
- By Unique Pseudonym on 19-09-16
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Mao Zedong
- A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Chairman of the Communist Party of China, the Cultural Revolution and the Political Theory of Maoism
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Duke Holm
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Explore the captivating life of Mao Zedong, one of the most influential figures of modern Chinese history and the founding father of the People’s Republic of China and centerpiece of one of the world’s most intense personality cults....
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History You Must Know
- By Aria on 09-05-18
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Mao
- Den ukendte historie
- By: Jung Chang, Jon Halliday
- Narrated by: Martin Paludan-Müller
- Length: 21 hrs and 40 mins
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En banebrydende biografi om Mao Zedong, som er baseret på 10 års research og tusindvis af interviews med mennesker, som har kendt Mao...
By: Jung Chang, and others
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Marutas of Unit 731
- Human Experimentation of the Forgotten Asian Auschwitz
- By: Jenny Chan
- Narrated by: Michelle Morgan
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
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Euphemistically labeled as the "Water Supply and Prophylaxis Administration" and "HippoEpizootic Administration" of the Imperial Japanese Army, Unit 731 and Unit 100, as well as their subsidiary branches, performed human experimentation on innocents under the leadership of Dr. Shiro....
By: Jenny Chan
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The Journey to the West in Easy Chinese
- The Complete Novel Retold with Limited Vocabulary
- By: Jeff Pepper
- Narrated by: Chen Junyou, Jeff Pepper
- Length: 36 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Journey to the West is probably the most famous and best-loved novel in China and is considered one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature. Its place in Chinese literature is roughly comparable to Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey in Western literature....
By: Jeff Pepper
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The People's Republic of Amnesia
- Tiananmen Revisited
- By: Louisa Lim
- Narrated by: Louisa Lim
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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In The People's Republic of Amnesia, NPR correspondent Louisa Lim charts how the events of June 4 changed China, and how China changed the events of June 4....
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Stranger than any fiction
- By Peregrine Quartermaine on 13-09-19
By: Louisa Lim
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The Scythian Empire
- Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Age from Persia to China
- By: Christopher I. Beckwith
- Narrated by: Jim Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
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This audiobook narrated by Jim Lee provides a rich, discovery-filled account of how a forgotten empire transformed the ancient world....
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The Rise and Fall of the East
- How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
- By: Yasheng Huang PhD
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Chinese society has been shaped by the interplay of the EAST—exams, autocracy, stability, and technology—from ancient times through the present. Chinese autocracies have developed exceptional tools for homogenizing ideas, norms, and practices. But this uniformity came with a huge downside....
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Social, cultural and economic perspectives
- By Me Makara on 17-03-24
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Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World
- A Concise History: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
- By: Rebecca E. Karl
- Narrated by: Bobby Brill
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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Rebecca E. Karl places the revolutionary leader's personal experiences, social visions and theory, military strategies, and developmental and foreign policies in a dynamic narrative....
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Academic and Readable
- By Adrian J. Smith on 28-07-21
By: Rebecca E. Karl
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A History of Future Cities
- 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......
By: Daniel Brook
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The War on the Uyghurs
- China's Campaign Against Xinjiang's Muslims
- By: Sean R. Roberts
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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This book reveals how China has used the US-led Global War on Terror as cover for its increasingly brutal suppression of the Uyghur people. China’s actions, it argues, have emboldened states around the globe to persecute ethnic minorities and severely repress domestic opposition....
By: Sean R. Roberts
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1434
- The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
- By: Gavin Menzies
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world....
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What an interesting concept?
- By Christopher on 12-05-16
By: Gavin Menzies
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How China Escaped the Poverty Trap
- By: Yuen Yuen Ang
- Narrated by: Catherine Ho
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
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How can poor and weak societies escape poverty traps? Political economists have traditionally offered three answers. Yuen Yuen Ang rejects all three schools of thought and their underlying assumptions....
By: Yuen Yuen Ang
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Victorious in Defeat
- The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975
- By: Alexander V. Pantsov, Steven I. Levine - translator
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 25 hrs and 42 mins
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A biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century's most powerful and controversial figures, Victorious in Defeat provides a detailed portrait of a man who ranks with Stalin, Roosevelt, Hitler, Churchill, and Gandhi as leaders who shaped our world....
By: Alexander V. Pantsov, and others
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The Rape of Nanking
- The Nanjing Massacre That Occurred During the Second Sino-Japanese War
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
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Between December 13, 1937, and the beginning of February 1938, Japanese soldiers entered the Chinese city of Nanjing, following a very brief fight for the city....
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A DARK PERIOD IN MODERN HISTORY
- By Helen Unsworth on 03-09-21
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Mao's Great Famine
- The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
- By: Frank Dikötter
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
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Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake the West in less than fifteen years. It led to one of the greatest catastrophes the world has ever known. Dikotter's extraordinary research within Chinese archives brings together for the first time what happened in the corridors of power with the everyday experiences of ordinary people, giving voice to the dead and disenfranchised. This groundbreaking account definitively recasts the history of the People's Republic of China.
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The Struggle for Taiwan
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- By: Sulmaan Wasif Khan
- Narrated by: Austin Yang
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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In the overwhelming chaos across Asia at the end of the Second World War, one relatively minor issue was the future of the Japanese colony of Taiwan, a large island some one hundred miles off the coast of Fujian. Handed to the Kuomintang-ruled Republic of China, in 1949 it suddenly became the focus of global attention as a random cross-section of defeated nationalists, including President Chiang Kai-shek, fled there from Mao's triumphant Communist forces.
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Spoil
- Spoil - A Word Used by Lord Elgin to Describe the Treasures Looted from the Emperor of China's Summer Palace by British and French Troops in 1860
- By: Andrew Shaw
- Narrated by: Andrew Shaw
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The West looted millions of priceless relics from China during the colonial era. It's time to give them back. This book tells the story of when they were stolen, who stole them and where they are now. It also offers a way to give China back its treasures which should be acceptable to everyone.
By: Andrew Shaw
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The Modern Art of War
- Sun Tzu's Hidden Path to Peace and Wholeness
- By: Hunter Liguore
- Narrated by: Kate Handford
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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Sun Tzu’s Art of War has been read mostly as a book of war strategies that teaches us how to beat our opponents on the battlefield. The Modern Art of War presents a new interpretation: it isn't about conquering your enemies, devising strategies to overtake armies or getting ahead against your competitors. Instead, the real art of war is the fight to control your mind and the thoughts that rule it.
By: Hunter Liguore
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The Devil and Communist China
- From Mao Down to Xi
- By: Steven W. Mosher
- Narrated by: Mike Romano
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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In The Devil and Communist China, Steven Mosher lays out in great detail the diabolical self-aggrandizement with deep roots in Chinese ancient political theory, called Legalism, which established the prototype for the totalitarian rule that the Chinese people suffer under today.
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A Catholic Critique
- By Marcas Ó Conghaile Muirthemne on 06-06-24
By: Steven W. Mosher
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From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane
- The Reawakening of Mongol Asia
- By: Peter Jackson
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
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By the mid-fourteenth century, the world empire founded by Genghis Khan was in crisis. The Mongol Ilkhanate had ended in Iran and Iraq, China's Mongol rulers were threatened by the native Ming, and the Golden Horde and the Central Asian Mongols were prey to internal discord. Into this void moved the warlord Tamerlane, the last major conqueror to emerge from Inner Asia.
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An Expertly Woven Narrative
- By Anonymous User on 01-05-24
By: Peter Jackson
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Mao's Great Famine
- The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
- By: Frank Dikötter
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake the West in less than fifteen years. It led to one of the greatest catastrophes the world has ever known. Dikotter's extraordinary research within Chinese archives brings together for the first time what happened in the corridors of power with the everyday experiences of ordinary people, giving voice to the dead and disenfranchised. This groundbreaking account definitively recasts the history of the People's Republic of China.
By: Frank Dikötter
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The Struggle for Taiwan
- A History
- By: Sulmaan Wasif Khan
- Narrated by: Austin Yang
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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In the overwhelming chaos across Asia at the end of the Second World War, one relatively minor issue was the future of the Japanese colony of Taiwan, a large island some one hundred miles off the coast of Fujian. Handed to the Kuomintang-ruled Republic of China, in 1949 it suddenly became the focus of global attention as a random cross-section of defeated nationalists, including President Chiang Kai-shek, fled there from Mao's triumphant Communist forces.
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Spoil
- Spoil - A Word Used by Lord Elgin to Describe the Treasures Looted from the Emperor of China's Summer Palace by British and French Troops in 1860
- By: Andrew Shaw
- Narrated by: Andrew Shaw
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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The West looted millions of priceless relics from China during the colonial era. It's time to give them back. This book tells the story of when they were stolen, who stole them and where they are now. It also offers a way to give China back its treasures which should be acceptable to everyone.
By: Andrew Shaw
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The Modern Art of War
- Sun Tzu's Hidden Path to Peace and Wholeness
- By: Hunter Liguore
- Narrated by: Kate Handford
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Sun Tzu’s Art of War has been read mostly as a book of war strategies that teaches us how to beat our opponents on the battlefield. The Modern Art of War presents a new interpretation: it isn't about conquering your enemies, devising strategies to overtake armies or getting ahead against your competitors. Instead, the real art of war is the fight to control your mind and the thoughts that rule it.
By: Hunter Liguore
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The Devil and Communist China
- From Mao Down to Xi
- By: Steven W. Mosher
- Narrated by: Mike Romano
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Devil and Communist China, Steven Mosher lays out in great detail the diabolical self-aggrandizement with deep roots in Chinese ancient political theory, called Legalism, which established the prototype for the totalitarian rule that the Chinese people suffer under today.
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A Catholic Critique
- By Marcas Ó Conghaile Muirthemne on 06-06-24
By: Steven W. Mosher
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From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane
- The Reawakening of Mongol Asia
- By: Peter Jackson
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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By the mid-fourteenth century, the world empire founded by Genghis Khan was in crisis. The Mongol Ilkhanate had ended in Iran and Iraq, China's Mongol rulers were threatened by the native Ming, and the Golden Horde and the Central Asian Mongols were prey to internal discord. Into this void moved the warlord Tamerlane, the last major conqueror to emerge from Inner Asia.
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An Expertly Woven Narrative
- By Anonymous User on 01-05-24
By: Peter Jackson