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Silk Silver Opium
- The Trade with China that Changed History
- By: Michael Pembroke
- Narrated by: Michael Pembroke
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Silk Silver Opium not only tells the fascinating stories of silk and tea, porcelain, silver and opium, missionaries, mercenaries and trade, but also what became inevitable – war and humiliation. Much about China's modern relationship with the West is the product of its past interactions, conflicts, victories and humiliations.
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Silk Silver Opium
- The Trade with China that Changed History
- Narrated by: Michael Pembroke
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 01-09-2025
- Language: English
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The Opium War
- By: Brian Inglis
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 29
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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1839. Trade is the stalwart of the British Empire. China threatens Britain's Opium trade. Britain and China go to war. 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? How did the British come to be as addicted to opium revenue as the Chinese were to the drug itself?Brian Inglis gives the answers to these and other questions in this meticulously researched study.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Worthwhile listen
- By Anonymous on 19-05-2021
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The Opium War
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 09-03-2021
- Language: English
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A Brief History of China
- Dynasty, Revolution and Transformation: From the Middle Kingdom to the People's Republic
- By: Jonathan Clements
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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In his retelling of a Chinese history stretching back 5,000 years, author and China-expert Jonathan Clements focuses on the human stories which led to the powerful transformations in Chinese society - from the unification of China under its first emperor, Qinshi Huangdi, to the Mongol invasion under Genghis Khan and the consolidation of Communist rule under Mao Zedong. Clements even brings listeners through to the present day, outlining China's economic renaissance under Deng Xiaoping and Xi Jinping.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Epic journey through the history of an incredible people
- By Dan on 22-06-2025
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A Brief History of China
- Dynasty, Revolution and Transformation: From the Middle Kingdom to the People's Republic
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 29-10-2019
- Language: English
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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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. Modern China is seen variously as an economic powerhouse, an icon of urbanization, a propaganda state and an aggressive superpower seeking world domination. Jaivin distills this vast history into a sparkling narrative, from mythical origins to the COVID-19 pandemic. It's a story in which China's women, from the earliest warriors to 20th-century suffragettes, receive long overdue attention.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good introduction for beginners
- By Amazon Customer on 27-10-2025
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The Shortest History of China
- From the Ancient Dynasties to a Modern Superpower: A Retelling for Our Times
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 30-11-2021
- Language: English
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The Red Emperor
- Xi Jinping and His New China
- By: Michael Sheridan
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 5
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Xi Jinping rules over 1.4 billion people and the second biggest economy on earth. He commands huge armed forces and runs a technology programme meant to dominate the globe. His ambition is to take the place of the United States and to change the world order. Xi's life story is full of drama: plots, purges, murders, a power struggle and a pandemic. The book, based on new sources, leads the listener from the poor, isolated China of the 1950s to the modern economic and military juggernaut of today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Modern Chinese politics in a nutshell
- By 99Albert on 24-01-2025
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The Red Emperor
- Xi Jinping and His New China
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 29-08-2024
- Language: English
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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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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story5 out of 5 stars 8
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. Yet official suppression and personal trauma have conspired in national amnesia: it exists, for the most part, as an absence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Good Listen
- By Jennifer Wilkinson on 02-11-2024
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Red Memory
- The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
- Narrated by: Tania Branigan
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 31-01-2023
- Language: English
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Voice for the Voiceless
- Over Seven Decades of Struggle with China for My Land and My People
- By: His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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In Voice for the Voiceless, the Dalai Lama reminds the world of Tibet’s unresolved struggle for freedom and the hardship his people continue to face in their homeland. The book captures his extraordinary life, uncovering what it means to lose your home to a repressive invader and build a life in exile; dealing with the existential crisis of a nation, its people, and its culture and religion; and envisioning the path forward.
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Voice for the Voiceless
- Over Seven Decades of Struggle with China for My Land and My People
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 20-03-2025
- Language: English
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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. Wikipedia sums up the book’s role perfectly, saying, “Enduringly popular, the tale is at once a comic adventure story, a humorous satire of Chinese bureaucracy, a spring of spiritual insight, and an extended allegory in which the group of pilgrims journeys towards enlightenment by the power and virtue of cooperation.”
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The Journey to the West in Easy Chinese
- The Complete Novel Retold with Limited Vocabulary
- Narrated by: Chen Junyou, Jeff Pepper
- Length: 36 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 06-01-2023
- Language: Simplified Chinese
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The Cultural Revolution
- A People's History, 1962—1976
- By: Frank Dikötter
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives between 1958 and 1962, an ageing Mao launched an ambitious scheme to shore up his reputation and eliminate those he viewed as a threat to his legacy. The stated goal of the Cultural Revolution was to purge the country of bourgeois, capitalist elements he claimed were threatening genuine communist ideology. But the Chairman also used the Cultural Revolution to turn on his colleagues, some of them longstanding comrades-in-arms, subjecting them to public humiliation, imprisonment and torture.
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The Cultural Revolution
- A People's History, 1962—1976
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 09-11-2023
- Language: English
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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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Overall5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8
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China and Japan have cultural and political connections that stretch back 1,500 years. But today, their relationship is strained. China's military buildup deeply worries Japan, while Japan's brutal occupation of China in World War II remains an open wound. In recent years, less than 10 percent of each population had positive feelings toward the other, and both countries insist that the other side must deal openly with its history before relations can improve. Ezra Vogel's China and Japan examines key turning points in Sino-Japanese history.
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China and Japan
- Facing History
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 22 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 14-01-2020
- Language: English
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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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. The art as it is presently understood has been handed down from teacher to student for more than 300 years. Until now, no one has ever stepped back and taken a critical look at why this art's techniques are presented and performed the way they are.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Practitioner's Review
- By SunTsu Bushido on 11-08-2022
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The Tao of Wing Chun
- The History and Principles of China’s Most Explosive Martial Art
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 08-06-2021
- Language: English
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China and Russia
- Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord
- By: Philip Snow
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 25 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world, respectively, have maintained a delicate relationship for four centuries. In addition to a four-thousand-kilometer border, they have periodically shared a common outlook on political and economic affairs. But they are, in essence, profoundly different polities and cultures, and their intermittent alliances have proven difficult and at times even volatile. Philip Snow provides a full account of the relationship between these two global giants.
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5 out of 5 stars
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review of 400 years of difficult history
- By Anonymous on 01-04-2024
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China and Russia
- Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 25 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 31-10-2023
- Language: English
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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 Scythian Empire
- Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Age from Persia to China
- Narrated by: Jim Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 17-01-2023
- Language: English
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4
The rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule are told with unique insight in this new history by Michael Sheridan, drawing on eyewitness reporting over three decades, interviews with key figures and documents from archives in China and the West. The story sweeps the listener from the earliest days of trade through the Opium Wars of the 19th century to the age of globalisation, the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China, the battle for democracy on the city’s streets and the ultimate victory of the Chinese Communist Party.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Ignorant English pronunciation
- By C on 05-10-2025
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The Gate to China
- A New History of the People’s Republic & Hong Kong
- Narrated by: Daniel York
- Length: 20 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 16-09-2021
- Language: English
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The Taiwan Story
- How a Small Island Will Dictate the Global Future
- By: Kerry Brown
- Narrated by: Kerry Brown
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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With unparalleled access to Taiwan’s political leaders and a deep understanding of the island’s history and culture, Professor Kerry Brown provides an updated reading of Taiwan, its twenty-three million people, and how they navigate being caught in this frightening geopolitical standoff. This is the essential book delving into Taiwan’s unique story, buried beneath the headlines, told in an accessible, expert and urgent way.
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The Taiwan Story
- How a Small Island Will Dictate the Global Future
- Narrated by: Kerry Brown
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 07-11-2024
- Language: English
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a rediscovery of the ideas and ideals of classical Greece and Rome. But now bestselling historian Gavin Menzies makes the startling argument that in the year 1434, China - then the world's most technologically advanced civilization - provided the spark that set the European Renaissance ablaze. From that date onward, Europeans embraced Chinese ideas, discoveries, and inventions, all of which form the basis of Western civilization today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An excellent insight
- By Garry Larden on 22-12-2024
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1434
- The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 28-01-2014
- Language: English
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China's Quest for Military Supremacy
- By: Phillip C. Saunders, Joel Wuthnow
- Narrated by: Steve Marvel
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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China's Quest for Military Supremacy provides a broad and accessible exploration of Chinese military power, including relations between the Chinese Communist Party and its army, the strategic worldview of Chinese leaders, military strategy and resourcing, conventional and nuclear modernization, military diplomacy and coercion, preparations for war, and the People's Liberation Army's emerging global role.
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China's Quest for Military Supremacy
- Narrated by: Steve Marvel
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 29-04-2025
- Language: English
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History of China
- A Captivating Guide to Chinese History, Including Events Such as the First Emperor of China, the Mongol Conquests of Genghis Khan, the Opium Wars, and the Cultural Revolution
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Edwin Andrews
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The history of China is complex - perhaps, more complex than that of other nations. The ethnic groups that compose China go back to prehistoric times, and each group lent its own color to the enormous nation. It is not like a diluted mixture of all its cultures; rather, it is a collage. Yet, there are immutable elements still present today. Rice originated in China, and so did stir-frying.
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History of China
- A Captivating Guide to Chinese History, Including Events Such as the First Emperor of China, the Mongol Conquests of Genghis Khan, the Opium Wars, and the Cultural Revolution
- Narrated by: Edwin Andrews
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 18-09-2020
- Language: English
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The Great Transformation
- China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
- By: Chen Jian, Odd Arne Westad
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 14 hrs
- Unabridged
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Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped their lives during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. These changes, and the unprecedented and sustained economic growth that followed, transformed China and the world.
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The Great Transformation
- China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 14 hrs
- Release date: 29-10-2024
- Language: English
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 21
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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 and will ascend to the position of world economic leader by 2050. But the full repercussions of China's ascendancy-for itself and the rest of the globe-have been surprisingly little explained or understood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent!
- By Mr. S. D. Bourges on 22-10-2024
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When China Rules the World
- The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
- Narrated by: Scott Peterson
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 17-12-2009
- Language: English
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