Asian Politics

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    • Revised Edition
    • By: R. H. P. Mason, J. G. Caiger
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 27-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • A classic of Japanese history, this audiobook is the preeminent work on the history of Japan. Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume complete history of the nation of Japan....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 18-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • 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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    • Isolation, War, Despotism and Revival: The Fascinating Story of a Resilient But Divided People
    • By: Michael J. Seth
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Korea was one of the last countries in Asia to be visited by Westerners, and its borders have remained largely unchanged since it was unified in the seventh century. Though it is one of the world's oldest and most ethnically homogeneous states, Korea was not born in a vacuum....

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    • Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture
    • By: Roger J. Davies, Osamu Ikeno
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Listeners of this book will gain a clear understanding of what makes the Japanese, and their society, tick....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 14-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • 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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    • Nomad Warriors of the Steppe
    • By: Barry Cunliffe
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 28-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • The Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium BC....

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    • By: Ezra F. Vogel
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 33 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 23-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • 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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    • The Impossible Country
    • By: Daniel Tudor
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 25-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • South Korea's amazing rise from the ashes: the inside story of an economic, political, and cultural phenomenon....

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    • A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu of Taira Shigesuke
    • By: Thomas Cleary
    • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
    • Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 13-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • With a bright, conversational narrative by Thomas Cleary, this book is indispensable to corporate executives, students of Asian culture, martial artists, or anyone sincerely interested in Japan and its people....

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    • By: Sudha Bhuchar
    • Narrated by: Sudha Bhuchar
    • Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Acclaimed actor and writer, Sudha Bhuchar (Mary Poppins Returns, Mogul Mowgli) presents, Evening Conversations....

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    • Honor and Shame in Paul's Message and Mission
    • By: Brad Vaughn, E. Randolph Richards - foreword
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 23-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In Reading Romans with Eastern Eyes, Brad demonstrates how paying attention to East Asian culture provides a helpful lens for interpreting Paul's most complex letter. When read this way, we see how honor and shame shape so much of Paul's message and mission....

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    • A Hmong Family Memoir
    • By: Kao Kalia Yang
    • Narrated by: Kao Kalia Yang
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 17-06-11
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In the 70s and 80s, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to the United States....

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    • The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
    • By: Gordon H. Chang
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now....

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    • Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
    • By: Daniel Tudor, James Pearson
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Plato
    • Narrated by: Ray Childs
    • Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 164 ratings
    • The Republic poses questions that endure: What is justice? What form of community fosters the best possible life for human beings? What is the nature and destiny of the soul? Find out....

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    • Global Order in the Twenty-First Century
    • By: Parag Khanna
    • Narrated by: Nezar Alderazi
    • Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • 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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    • My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps
    • By: Mary Matsuda Gruenewald
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This memoir is told from the heart and mind of a woman now nearly eighty years old who experienced the challenges and wounds of her internment at a crucial point in her development as a young adult....

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    • Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation
    • By: Tim Hannigan
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 30-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Indonesia is by far the largest nation in Southeast Asia and has the fourth-largest population in the world after the United States. Indonesian history and culture are especially relevant today as the island nation is an emerging power....

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    • The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History
    • By: Yunte Huang
    • Narrated by: Alfred Gingold
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 27-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Yunte Huang ingeniously traces Charlie Chan from his real beginnings as a bullwhip-wielding detective in territorial Hawaii to his reinvention as a literary sleuth and Hollywood film icon....

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    • Essays on the Japanese Martial Arts and Ways
    • By: Dave Lowry
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The goals of the budo - the martial arts and ways of Japan - lie in refining the body and spirit. These goals are not always the obvious ones - and are learned only through the guidance and direction of great teachers....

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