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Chinese Mythology
- Engaging Tales and Intricate Stories from China
- By: Jane Hampton
- Narrated by: Christopher Knight
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In this book in the series, the most important legends from China will come to light. You will learn about the famous monkey who became a god through his clever trickery and struggles, for instance. This is an amazing story that has inspired millions to depict the protagonist in paintings, sculptures, and other art works.
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Chinese Mythology
- Engaging Tales and Intricate Stories from China
- Narrated by: Christopher Knight
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 10-02-20
- Language: English
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War in Japan
- 1467–1615
- By: Stephen Turnbull
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents War in Japan by Stephen Turnbull, read by Malk Williams. This is an accessible introduction to the most violent, turbulent, cruel and exciting chapter in Japanese history. In 1467 the Onin War ushered in a period of unparalleled conflict and rivalry in Japan that came to be...
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War in Japan
- 1467–1615
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 17-03-22
- Language: English
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Latitudes of Longing
- A prizewinning literary epic of the subcontinent, nature, climate and love
- By: Shubhangi Swarup
- Narrated by: Raj Ghatak
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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In the feverish tropics of the Andaman Islands, a young Botanist tends to a fragile rose he has imported to welcome his bride. Hoping their marriage will bloom in this strange life, hundreds of miles from the East Coast of India, he is entranced by Chanda Devi's fierce nature and unusual gifts; speaking to trees and the ghosts of former colonialists. These islands, she tells her adoring husband, rest on a fault line, cracked so deep into the earth that spirits cross the boundary freely. But it is not this fracture that takes a tragic bite out of their happiness.
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Latitudes of Longing
- A prizewinning literary epic of the subcontinent, nature, climate and love
- Narrated by: Raj Ghatak
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 19-05-20
- Language: English
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Islands of Fire and Freedom
- The Untold Story of the Philippines in World War II
- By: Amihan Ramirez Navarro
- Narrated by: John B Leen
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Islands of Fire and Freedom: The Untold Story of the Philippines in World War II by Amihan Ramirez Navarro is a sweeping narrative of courage, tragedy, and resilience set against one of the most devastating chapters of the twentieth century. While much of the world remembers Pearl Harbor, D-Day, and the fall of Berlin, the Philippines’ ordeal often lingers in the shadows of history. This book brings that forgotten front to the forefront, restoring the voices of a people who endured invasion, occupation, and liberation in a crucible of fire that reshaped their nation forever.
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Powerful Testament
- By Kasey Reyes on 20-02-26
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Islands of Fire and Freedom
- The Untold Story of the Philippines in World War II
- Narrated by: John B Leen
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 16-10-25
- Language: English
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Bullets and Opium
- Real-Life Stories of China After the Tiananmen Square Massacre
- By: Liao Yiwu
- Narrated by: Francois Chau, Edward Chen
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A “memorable series of portraits of the working class people who defended Tiananmen Square” (The New York Review of Books) during the protests from the award-winning poet, dissident, and “one of the most original and remarkable Chinese writers of our time” (Philip Gourevitch). Much has...
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Revealing and a little depressing.
- By Anonymous on 10-06-19
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Bullets and Opium
- Real-Life Stories of China After the Tiananmen Square Massacre
- Narrated by: Francois Chau, Edward Chen
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 07-05-19
- Language: English
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Pakistan
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Pippa Virdee
- Narrated by: Shakira Shute
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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This Very Short Introduction looks at Pakistan as one of the two nation-states of the Indian subcontinent that emerged in 1947. Pippa Virdee reaches into the ancient past to demonstrate the influence of trajectories of human settlement and civilization on Pakistan's contemporary political arena, and shows how the longer continuities between the land and its peoples are as important as the short-term changes in the political landscape. She considers Pakistan's religion and society, the state and the military, everyday life, popular culture, languages and literature.
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Pakistan
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Shakira Shute
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 29-03-22
- Language: English
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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
- Unabridged
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Performance5
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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. For over six weeks, they committed some of the worst atrocities, first against the Chinese soldiers after they surrendered, then against the civilians. The Westerners who did not flee from the city prior to the Japanese arrival set up a safety zone in the weeks leading up to the Imperial Army entering the city. This was the only place where there was relative safety.
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- By Anonymous on 22-08-25
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The Rape of Nanking
- The Nanjing Massacre That Occurred During the Second Sino-Japanese War
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 28-07-21
- Language: English
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The Taliban Shuffle
- Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- By: Kim Barker
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall52
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Performance42
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Story41
Now a Major Motion Picture titled Whiskey Tango Foxtrot starring Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman, Alfred Molina, and Billy Bob Thornton. From tea with warlords in the countryside to parties with drunken foreign correspondents in the “dry” city of Kabul, journalist Kim Barker captures...
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I liked it
- By melbopp on 05-04-16
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The Taliban Shuffle
- Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 22-03-11
- Language: English
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Pakistan's Pathway to the Bomb
- Ambitions, Politics, and Rivalries
- By: Mansoor Ahmed
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Pakistan's pathway to developing nuclear weapons remains shrouded in mystery and surrounded by misconceptions. While it is no secret why Pakistan became a nuclear power, how Pakistan became a nuclear state has been obscured by mythmaking. In Pakistan's Pathway to the Bomb, Mansoor Ahmed offers a revisionist history of Pakistan's nuclear program and the bureaucratic politics that shaped its development from its inception in 1956 until the 1998 nuclear tests.
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Pakistan's Pathway to the Bomb
- Ambitions, Politics, and Rivalries
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 12-07-22
- Language: English
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The Yakuza
- The History of the Notorious Japanese Crime Organization
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Since the beginning of civilization, crime and injustice has existed. At the same time, gangs in all shapes and sizes have been around, from rebels, dissidents, and rogue soldiers to the average circle of miscreants loitering in alleys and behind convenience stores. In Japan, a gang of a different breed would arise - one underscored by honor, respect, family, and a code of ethics. They are the Yakuza. The Yakuza claim to be the Robin Hoods of the Far East. While they may lean towards the other side of the law, justice is all they truly aim for.
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The Yakuza
- The History of the Notorious Japanese Crime Organization
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Release date: 06-03-17
- Language: English
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Asian Waters
- The Struggle over the South China Sea and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion
- By: Humphrey Hawksley
- Narrated by: Rufus Wright
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance16
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Few territories are as hotly contested as the western Pacific Ocean. Across the 1.5 million square mile expanse of the East and South China Sea, six countries lay overlapping claims that date back centuries. China, Vietnam, Korea and Indonesia assert their right to trade routes, deploying military garrisons to defend disputed territories while Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines resist their expansion.
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very important listen if you study history
- By katie on 01-01-21
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Asian Waters
- The Struggle over the South China Sea and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion
- Narrated by: Rufus Wright
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 14-02-19
- Language: English
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The Shaolin Monastery
- History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts
- By: Meir Shahar
- Narrated by: Kevin Young
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance11
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The Shaolin Monastery charts for the first time in any language the history of the Shaolin Temple and the evolution of its world-renowned martial arts. In this meticulously researched and eminently readable study Meir Shahar considers the economic political and religious factors that led Shaolin monks to disregard the Buddhist prohibition against violence and instead create fighting techniques that by the 21st century have spread throughout the world.
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Written and oral traditions of kung-fu and religion
- By Kindle Customer on 25-01-25
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The Shaolin Monastery
- History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts
- Narrated by: Kevin Young
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 31-01-13
- Language: English
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Leftover in China
- The Women Shaping the World's Next Superpower
- By: Roseann Lake
- Narrated by: Janet Song
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance13
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Forty years ago in China, marriage was universal, compulsory, and a woman's only means to a livelihood. Enter the one-child policy, which despite its horrors, resulted in China's first generations of urban only-daughters - girls who were raised without brothers and pushed to study, achieve, and succeed as if they were sons. Fast forward to the present, where in an urbanized economic powerhouse, enough of these women have decided to postpone marriage - or not marry at all - to spawn a label: "leftovers". Unprecedentedly well-educated and goal-oriented, they struggle to find partners.
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Chinese women and other women
- By Dianella on 08-06-24
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Leftover in China
- The Women Shaping the World's Next Superpower
- Narrated by: Janet Song
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 13-02-18
- Language: English
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance25
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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. A prizewinning foreign correspondent and former New York Times bureau chief in Shanghai and in West and Central Africa, Howard French is uniquely positioned to tell the story of China in Africa. Through meticulous on-the-ground reporting, French crafts a layered investigation of astonishing depth and breadth.
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Woeful pronunciation spoils an interesting text
- By Nick Branson on 08-03-15
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China's Second Continent
- How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 20-05-14
- Language: English
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China's African Empire
- The country that captured a continent
- By: Paul Kenyon
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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From the bestselling author of Dictatorland, this is the long and turbulent history of China’s growing influence over African states. People are increasingly fascinated by – and terrified of – the role of China in the modern world. In Africa, this role has become something akin to a new...
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China's African Empire
- The country that captured a continent
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 15-10-26
- Language: English
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The Great Reversal
- Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power
- By: Kerry Brown
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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The relationship between Britain and China has shaped the modern world. Chinese art, philosophy, and science have had a profound effect upon British culture, while the long history of British exploitation is still bitterly remembered in China today. But how has their interaction changed over time? From the early days of the East India Company through the violence of the Opium Wars to present-day disputes over Hong Kong, Kerry Brown charts this turbulent and intriguing relationship in full.
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The Great Reversal
- Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 03-09-24
- Language: English
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The Trees Are All Young on Garrison Hill
- A Personal Memoir Featuring the Battle of KOHIMA
- By: Gordon Graham
- Narrated by: Gordon Graham
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The Trees are all Young on Garrison Hill is written and read by a veteran of the Second World War battle of Kohima. This tautly-written autobiography takes the listener on a journey from a quiet respectable Scottish boyhood to the sudden brutality of jungle warfare in Assam and Burma, and afterwards through the twilight of Empire in India, where Gordon Graham lived for 10 years after the war.
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The Trees Are All Young on Garrison Hill
- A Personal Memoir Featuring the Battle of KOHIMA
- Narrated by: Gordon Graham
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 24-10-14
- Language: English
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The Vortex
- A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War and Liberation
- By: Scott Carney, Jason Miklian
- Narrated by: Scott Carney
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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In November 1970, a storm set a collision course with the most densely populated coastline on Earth. Over the course of just a few hours, the Great Bhola Cyclone would kill 500,000 people and begin a chain reaction of turmoil, genocide, and war. The Vortex is the dramatic story of how that storm sparked a country to revolution.
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Brilliant, fascinating and a must hear/read story
- By Miss JG Walter on 06-07-22
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The Vortex
- A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War and Liberation
- Narrated by: Scott Carney
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 29-03-22
- Language: English
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The Burma Wars
- 1824-1886 (Conflicts of Empire)
- By: George Bruce
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Between 1824 and 1885 Britain and Burma fought in three deadly struggles. The first was the longest and most expensive war in British Indian history, the second was criticized at the time as being caused by gunboat diplomacy, and the third led to the removal of Burma's Konbaung dynasty and the incorporation of Burma into the British Raj. These wars were fraught with military blunders and incompetence.
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The Burma Wars
- 1824-1886 (Conflicts of Empire)
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 19-07-22
- Language: English
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Top 10 Ways Tokyo Is the City of Tomorrow: And Today’s Unexpected Wonders
- By: Barnaby Sorrens
- Narrated by: Andrew H
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance28
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What does the future look like? For many, it gleams with skyscrapers of glass and steel, autonomous robots, seamless transport, and silent systems that anticipate our needs before we express them. But what if that future isn’t just a dream—it’s already here? Welcome to Tokyo: the living, breathing prototype of tomorrow’s world, tucked within the organised calm of today.
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The City That Lives in the Future
- By Carrie Whitfield on 01-11-25
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Top 10 Ways Tokyo Is the City of Tomorrow: And Today’s Unexpected Wonders
- Narrated by: Andrew H
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 01-08-25
- Language: English
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