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World on the Brink
- How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century
- By: Dmitri Alperovitch, Garrett M. Graff - contributor
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
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A leading national security expert lays out how the U. S. can keep its place as the world’s top superpower in the face of a rising China....
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Compelling
- By Rui Ribeiro on 12-05-24
By: Dmitri Alperovitch, and others
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The Political Thought of Xi Jinping
- By: Steve Tsang, Olivia Cheung
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Over the course of the last half dozen years, China's supreme leader Xi Jinping has made extraordinary changes which have profound implications not only for the Chinese people but nations throughout the world.
By: Steve Tsang, and others
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Horrific narration
- By Furry Cheese on 06-08-22
By: Michael Schuman
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The Light of Asia
- A History of Western Fascination with the East
- By: Christopher Harding
- Narrated by: Christopher Harding
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
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Christopher Harding's captivating gallery of geniuses, adventurers and con-men celebrates Asia's impact on the West in all its variety.....
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The Great Partition
- The Making of India and Pakistan
- By: Yasmin Khan
- Narrated by: Jeed Saddy
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
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This new edition of Yasmin Khan's reappraisal of the tumultuous India-Pakistan Partition features an introduction reflecting on the latest research and on ways in which commemoration of the Partition has changed, and considers the Partition in light of the current refugee crisis....
By: Yasmin Khan
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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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World on the Brink
- How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century
- By: Dmitri Alperovitch, Garrett M. Graff - contributor
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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A leading national security expert lays out how the U. S. can keep its place as the world’s top superpower in the face of a rising China....
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Compelling
- By Rui Ribeiro on 12-05-24
By: Dmitri Alperovitch, and others
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The Political Thought of Xi Jinping
- By: Steve Tsang, Olivia Cheung
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Over the course of the last half dozen years, China's supreme leader Xi Jinping has made extraordinary changes which have profound implications not only for the Chinese people but nations throughout the world.
By: Steve Tsang, and others
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Horrific narration
- By Furry Cheese on 06-08-22
By: Michael Schuman
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The Light of Asia
- A History of Western Fascination with the East
- By: Christopher Harding
- Narrated by: Christopher Harding
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Christopher Harding's captivating gallery of geniuses, adventurers and con-men celebrates Asia's impact on the West in all its variety.....
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The Great Partition
- The Making of India and Pakistan
- By: Yasmin Khan
- Narrated by: Jeed Saddy
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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This new edition of Yasmin Khan's reappraisal of the tumultuous India-Pakistan Partition features an introduction reflecting on the latest research and on ways in which commemoration of the Partition has changed, and considers the Partition in light of the current refugee crisis....
By: Yasmin Khan
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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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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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Blows away the MSM narrative
- By Adrian J. Smith on 17-10-20
By: Andrei Lankov
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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
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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 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
- Unabridged
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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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Shocking
- By Anonymous User on 03-06-21
By: Jim Sciutto
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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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Readable and eye opening expose on North Korea
- By Adrian J. Smith on 11-09-20
By: Daniel Tudor, and others
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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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Scary subject, regardless of where you live
- By Mark Hayes on 12-12-22
By: Josh Chin, and others
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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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An East Asian perspective on this contest
- By Chris on 21-04-20
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The Mountains Are High
- A Year of Escape and Discovery in Rural China
- By: Alec Ash
- Narrated by: Alec Ash
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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The Mountains Are High is a beautifully written, candid memoir about how reevaluating what is really important and taking a leap of faith to reach it can genuinely transform your life.
By: Alec Ash
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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 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
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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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See You Again in Pyongyang
- By: Travis Jeppesen
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
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Travis Jeppesen goes beyond the cliches of "taboo tourism" and the "good versus evil" tenor of politicians and media reports. See You Again in Pyongyang is an essential addition to the literature about one of the world's most fascinating and mysterious places....
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Everyone should listen.
- By Oliver Green on 19-10-22
By: Travis Jeppesen
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The Impossible City
- A Hong Kong Memoir
- By: Karen Cheung
- Narrated by: Karen Cheung
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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Hong Kong is known as a place of extremes: a former colony of the United Kingdom that now exists at the margins of an ascendant China; a city rocked by mass protests, where residents rally—often in vain—against threats to their fundamental freedoms....
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The book has wrong title
- By Barbara Z. on 02-09-23
By: Karen Cheung
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Spies and Lies
- How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World
- By: Alex Joske
- Narrated by: James Daniel Burkdoll
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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Spies and Lies a groundbreaking expose of elite influence operations by China's little-known Ministry of State Security....
By: Alex Joske
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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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Fascinating
- By Milo on 09-08-17
By: Suki Kim
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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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Excellent narrator, good overview
- By Anonymous User on 01-01-23
By: David Shambaugh
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When China Attacks
- A Warning to America
- By: Col. Grant Newsham
- Narrated by: Axel Bosley
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
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A warning about America’s impending war with China. The conflict is coming, a former Marine intelligence officer shows, and we’re not ready. But it’s not too late to prepare....
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Realistic review of the China threat
- By J D A LAING on 29-11-23
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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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Mao
- By Stephen N. on 02-07-17
By: Mao Zedong, and others
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The Dean of Shandong
- Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University
- By: Daniel A. Bell
- Narrated by: Wyntner Woody
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
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This audiobook provides an inside view of Chinese academia and what it reveals about China’s political system....
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I was expecting more
- By lauri on 19-04-23
By: Daniel A. Bell
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The Khalistan Conspiracy
- A Former R&AW Officer Unravels the Path to 1984
- By: G.B.S. Sidhu
- Narrated by: Adwait Karambelkar
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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The author, a former Special Secretary of India's external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) of the Cabinet Secretariat, examines a series of interconnected events that led to the rise of the Khalistan movement.
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A balanced and well researched narrative.
- By Anonymous User on 15-07-23
By: G.B.S. Sidhu
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Phantom Plague
- How Tuberculosis Shaped History
- By: Vidya Krishnan
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its modern reemergence that now threatens populations around the world....
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Informative and well written
- By Anonymous User on 21-07-23
By: Vidya Krishnan
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The Hidden History of Burma
- Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century
- By: Thant Myint-U
- Narrated by: Assaf Cohen
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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Precariously positioned between China and India, Burma's population has suffered dictatorship, natural disaster, and the dark legacies of colonial rule. As historian, former diplomat, and presidential advisor, Thant Myint-U offers an insider's diagnosis of a country at a breaking point....
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I love this Book
- By Aung ko ko on 14-11-20
By: Thant Myint-U
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China Unbound
- A New World Disorder
- By: Joanna Chiu
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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While the United States stumbles, an award-winning foreign correspondent chronicles China’s dramatic moves to become the world’s dominant power....
By: Joanna Chiu
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Cracking the China Conundrum
- Why Conventional Economic Wisdom Is Wrong
- By: Yukon Huang
- Narrated by: James Sie
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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Cracking the China Conundrum provides a holistic and contrarian view of China's major economic, political, and foreign policy issues....
By: Yukon Huang
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India
- A Portrait
- By: Patrick French
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
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A monumental biography of the subcontinent from the award-winning author of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul....
By: Patrick French
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Overreach
- How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise
- By: Susan L. Shirk
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
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For three decades after Mao's death in 1976, China's leaders adopted a restrained approach to foreign policy. To facilitate the country's economic ascendance, and to prevent a backlash, they reassured the outside world of China's peaceful intentions. Then, as Susan Shirk shows, something changed....
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Shrill narrator, unfollowable narrative
- By D.A Mopsy on 14-07-23
By: Susan L. Shirk