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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
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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....
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Miserable Truth
- By Ben on 28-07-2022
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Everything Under the Heavens
- How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power
- By: Howard W. French
- Narrated by: Nicholas Hormann
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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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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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister
- Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
- By: Jung Chang
- Narrated by: Joanna David
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
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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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The Tao of Wing Chun
- The History and Principles of China’s Most Explosive Martial Art
- By: Danny Xuan, John Little
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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Wing Chun is the most popular form of Chinese kung fu in the world today, with more than four million practitioners. This guide will fascinate and educate anyone interested in the martial arts, from beginner to master....
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A Practitioner's Review
- By SunTsu Bushido on 11-08-2022
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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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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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Miserable Truth
- By Ben on 28-07-2022
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Everything Under the Heavens
- How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power
- By: Howard W. French
- Narrated by: Nicholas Hormann
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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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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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister
- Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
- By: Jung Chang
- Narrated by: Joanna David
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
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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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The Tao of Wing Chun
- The History and Principles of China’s Most Explosive Martial Art
- By: Danny Xuan, John Little
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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Wing Chun is the most popular form of Chinese kung fu in the world today, with more than four million practitioners. This guide will fascinate and educate anyone interested in the martial arts, from beginner to master....
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A Practitioner's Review
- By SunTsu Bushido on 11-08-2022
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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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The Emperor Far Away
- Travels at the Edge of China
- By: David Eimer
- Narrated by: Corey Snow
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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Travelling through China's most distant and unknown reaches, David Eimer explores the increasingly tense relationship between the Han Chinese and the ethnic minorities....
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Mythology: Asian Myths, Gods, Heroes, Stories, and Legends
- By: Jane Hampton
- Narrated by: Christopher Knight
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
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As you begin to listen to this book, you will become familiar with all the gods and goddesses of Chinese culture. The historical context will become clear, as well as the institutions, the law, the rules about sexuality, marriage, and children, and so much more....
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The Digital Silk Road
- China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future
- By: Jonathan E. Hillman
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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Its vast infrastructure projects now extend from the ocean floor to outer space, and from Africa's megacities into rural America. China is wiring the world, and in doing so, rewriting the global order....
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The Story of China
- A Portrait of a Civilisation and Its People
- By: Michael Wood
- Narrated by: Michael Wood
- Length: 23 hrs and 7 mins
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China’s story is extraordinarily rich and dramatic. Now Michael Wood, one of the UK's pre-eminent historians, brings it all together in a major new one-volume history of China that is essential listening for anyone who wants to understand its burgeoning role in our world today....
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Pretentious Drivel
- By Rebecca Lee on 21-10-2021
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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
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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....
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Highly recommended
- By rico on 31-08-2021
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China and Japan
- Facing History
- 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....
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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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Outstanding
- By Anonymous User on 08-05-2020
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The Shortest History of China
- From the Ancient Dynasties to a Modern Superpower: A Retelling for Our Times
- 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....
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China's Second Continent
- How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa
- By: Howard W. French
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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An exciting, hugely revealing account of China’s burgeoning presence in Africa - a developing empire already shaping, and reshaping, the future of millions of people....
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an incredible audiobook
- By Anonymous User on 18-02-2021
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Indelible City
- Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong
- By: Louisa Lim
- Narrated by: Louisa Lim
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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An award-winning journalist takes to the protest-riven streets of Hong Kong to write this startling landmark account of the island city's complex past and precarious future....
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The Path
- A New Way to Think About Everything
- 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....
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Excellent research and explanation
- By Anonymous User on 21-01-2021
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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
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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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An education
- By Clare Ong on 05-01-2020
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The Travels of Marco Polo
- 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...
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Chiang Kai-Shek
- An Unauthorized Biography
- By: Emily Hahn
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
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An in-depth biography of the towering 20th-century Chinese military and political figure who led the government, first on the mainland and then in exile in Taiwan....
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The Opium War
- 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....
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Worthwhile listen
- By Anonymous User on 19-05-2021
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The Promise
- Love and Loss in Modern China
- By: Xinran Xue
- Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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At the start of the 20th century in China, the Hans were married in an elaborate ceremony before they were even born....
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Defying the Dragon
- Hong Kong and the World's Largest Dictatorship
- By: Stephen Vines
- Narrated by: Kathleen Li
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
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Defying the Dragon tells a remarkable story of audacity—of how the people of Hong Kong challenged the PRC's authority, just as its president reached the height of his powers. Vividly describing the uprising from street level, Vines explains how and why it unfolded....
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China's Great Wall of Debt
- Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans and the End of the Chinese Miracle
- By: Dinny McMahon
- Narrated by: Dinny McMahon, Roger Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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China's Great Wall of Debt is a penetrating examination of the country's opaque financial system and the complex factors that have brought the country to the brink of crisis....
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brilliant!!
- By Anonymous User on 10-10-2021
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The Silk Road
- A New History
- By: Valerie Hansen
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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In The Silk Road, Valerie Hansen describes the remarkable archaeological finds that revolutionize our understanding of these trade routes....
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No Escape
- The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs
- By: Nury Turkel
- Narrated by: Stewart Lang
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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A powerful memoir by Nury Turkel lays bare China’s repression of the Uyghur people. Turkel is cofounder and board chair of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and a commissioner for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom....
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What an injustice.
- By Kindle Customer on 07-07-2022
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One Bright Moon
- By: Andrew Kwong
- Narrated by: Jason Chong
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
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Winner of the 2021 Michael Crouch Award, debut category of the National Biography Award: From famine to freedom, how a young boy fled Chairman Mao's China to a new life in Australia....
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Delightful Find
- By Niki Hvidsten on 25-04-2021
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When China Rules the World
- The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
- 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....
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Narration is pretty bad
- By alan wu on 15-02-2021
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The Gate to China
- A New History of the People’s Republic & Hong Kong
- By: Michael Sheridan
- Narrated by: Daniel York
- Length: 20 hrs and 20 mins
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An epic history of the rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule. Essential listening for anyone wishing to deal with China or to understand the world in which we live....