- Australia & Oceania (25)
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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 Truth About China
- By: Bill Birtles
- Narrated by: Bill Birtles
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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A thrilling and provocative account of unfolding tensions between China and the West, filled with the people, stories and sticky situations from Bill Birtles's five years as an ABC correspondent....
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Like a war correspondent
- By Alan Millett on 10-07-2021
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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
- The Bubble That Never Pops
- By: Thomas Orlik
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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The Chinese economy appears destined for failure, the financial bubble forever in peril of popping, the real estate sector doomed to collapse, the factories fated for bankruptcy....
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Good, but a lot of economics
- By Anonymous User on 01-05-2021
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China and Japan
- Facing History
- By: Ezra F. Vogel
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 22 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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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 Truth About China
- By: Bill Birtles
- Narrated by: Bill Birtles
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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A thrilling and provocative account of unfolding tensions between China and the West, filled with the people, stories and sticky situations from Bill Birtles's five years as an ABC correspondent....
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Like a war correspondent
- By Alan Millett on 10-07-2021
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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
- The Bubble That Never Pops
- By: Thomas Orlik
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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The Chinese economy appears destined for failure, the financial bubble forever in peril of popping, the real estate sector doomed to collapse, the factories fated for bankruptcy....
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Good, but a lot of economics
- By Anonymous User on 01-05-2021
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Danger Zone
- The Coming Conflict with China
- By: Hal Brands, Michael Beckley
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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The Sino-American contest is driven by clashing geopolitical interests and a stark ideological dispute over whether authoritarianism or democracy will dominate the twenty-first century....
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The Nine Lives of Pakistan
- Dispatches from a Precarious State
- By: Declan Walsh
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times's most distinguished international correspondents. His electrifying portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this wondrous and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals....
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Read ti understand Pakistan
- By Anonymous User on 01-02-2022
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The Myth of Chinese Capitalism
- The Worker, the Factory, and the Future of the World
- By: Dexter Roberts
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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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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Has China Won?
- The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy
- By: Kishore Mahbubani
- Narrated by: Aaron Abano
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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The defining geopolitical contest of the 21st century is between China and the US. But is it avoidable? And if it happens, is the outcome already inevitable....
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Definitely slanted towards the CCP.
- By Ken Power on 01-08-2020
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The Real North Korea
- Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
- By: Andrei Lankov
- Narrated by: Steven Roy Grimsley
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been....
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Superpower Interrupted
- The Chinese History of the World
- By: Michael Schuman
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
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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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Very informative.
- By Matt Hind on 12-12-2021
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Bully of Asia
- By: Steven W. Mosher
- Narrated by: Al Kessel
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
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The signs are everywhere. China unilaterally claims the entire South China Sea as sovereign territory, then builds artificial islands to bolster its claim....
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Chaos Under Heaven
- Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century
- By: Josh Rogin
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
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The explosive, behind-the-scenes story of Donald Trump's high-stakes confrontation with Beijing, from an award-winning Washington Post columnist and peerless observer of the US-China relationship....
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The Chief Witness
- Escape from China's Modern-Day Concentration Camps
- By: Sayragul Sauytbay, Alexandra Cavelius
- Narrated by: Xifeng Brooks
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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Born in China’s northwestern province, Sayragul Sauytbay trained as a doctor before being appointed a senior civil servant. But her life was upended when the Chinese authorities incarcerated her. Her crime? Being Kazakh, one of China’s ethnic minorities....
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VERY VERY IMPORTANT BOOK!!!
- By Anonymous User on 03-08-2021
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China's Foreign Policy Contradictions
- Lessons from China's R2P, Hong Kong, and WTO Policy
- By: Tim Nicholas Ruhlig
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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Throughout the post-Mao reform era, China has championed the principle of sovereign state control, which holds that states should not intervene in the affairs of other states....
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Quarterly Essay 68: Hugh White on Fading America and Rising China
- By: Hugh White
- Narrated by: Hugh White
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
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Our region is experiencing a momentous transition. The US-led order is fading, and China has become ever more powerful....
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Insightful
- By Bradley on 30-03-2022
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Deceiving the Sky
- Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy
- By: Bill Gertz
- Narrated by: Claton Butcher
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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The United States' approach to China since the Communist regime in Beijing that began the period of reform and opening in the 1980s was based on a promise that trade and engagement with China would result in a peaceful, democratic state....
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Surveillance State
- Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control
- By: Josh Chin, Liza Lin
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
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Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China’s Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticated—and often brutal—harnessing of data....
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Chinese Communist Espionage
- An Intelligence Primer
- By: Peter Mattis, Matthew Brazil
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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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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The Future Is Asian
- Global Order in the Twenty-First Century
- By: Parag Khanna
- Narrated by: Nezar Alderazi
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
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Whether you gauge by demography, geography, economy or any other metric, Asia is already the present - and it is certainly the future....
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exceptional
- By Anonymous User on 29-11-2020
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North Korea Confidential
- Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
- By: Daniel Tudor, James Pearson
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
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North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms....
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Three Tigers, One Mountain
- A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
- By: Michael Booth
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
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There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other....
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The Shadow War
- Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America
- By: Jim Sciutto
- Narrated by: Jim Sciutto
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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CNN’s chief national security correspondent reveals the invisible fronts of 21st-century warfare and identifies the ongoing battles being waged - often without the public’s full knowledge - from disinformation campaigns to advanced satellite weaponry....
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The World According to China
- By: Elizabeth C. Economy
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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An economic and military superpower with twenty percent of the world's population, China has the wherewithal to transform the international system. Xi Jinping's bold calls for China to "lead in the reform of the global governance system" suggest that he has just such an ambition....
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China's Leaders
- From Mao to Now
- By: David Shambaugh
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
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Since the founding of the People's Republic of China over seventy years ago, five paramount leaders have shaped the fates and fortunes of the nation and the ruling Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping....
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On Practice and Contradiction (Revolutions Series)
- Slavoj Zizek presents Mao
- By: Mao Zedong, Slavoj Žižek
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions....
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Without You, There Is No Us
- My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
- By: Suki Kim
- Narrated by: Janet Song
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign....
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Amazing story
- By Mary on 29-11-2015
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Age of Ambition
- Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China
- By: Evan Osnos
- Narrated by: Evan Osnos, George Backman
- Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
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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....
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China's Civilian Army
- The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy
- By: Peter Martin
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
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China's Civilian Army charts China's transformation from an isolated and impoverished communist state to a global superpower from the perspective of those on the front line: China's diplomats. They give a rare perspective on the greatest geopolitical drama of the last half century....