China Great History

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    • China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
    • By: Chen Jian, Odd Arne Westad
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 14 hrs
    • Release date: 29-10-24
    • Language: English
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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.

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    • The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
    • By: Frank Dikötter
    • Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
    • Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 23-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake the West in less than fifteen years. It led to one of the world's greatest catastrophes.

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    • Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans and the End of the Chinese Miracle
    • By: Dinny McMahon
    • Narrated by: Dinny McMahon, Roger Davis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • China's Great Wall of Debt is a penetrating examination of the country's opaque financial system and the complex factors that have brought the country to the brink of crisis....

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    • A Concise Introduction to Chinese History, Culture, Dynasties, Mythology, Great Achievements & More of the Oldest Living Civilization
    • By: History Brought Alive
    • Narrated by: R. E. Harter
    • Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 26-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • While there are many books that explore China’s history, public knowledge is still lacking....

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    • Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power
    • By: Kerry Brown
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • A vivid history of the relationship between Britain and China, from 1600 to the present.

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    • The History of China's Most Famous Landmark
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Violet Meadow
    • Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The Great Wall of China is perhaps the wonder of the world that has most captured the human imagination....

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    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr
    • Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
    • Release date: 25-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Violent confrontation between armed groups over the supply of illegal narcotics is something we commonly associate with criminal gangs in modern cities, but in the mid-nineteenth century Great Britain went to war with Imperial China....

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    • China and the World
    • By: Timothy Brook
    • Narrated by: Timothy Brook
    • Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-23
    • Language: English
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    • Timothy Brook examines the last eight centuries of China's relationship with the world told through the eyes of traders, invaders, civil servants, visionaries, and traitors....

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    • The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic
    • By: Karl Taro Greenfeld
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 23-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • When the SARS virus broke out in China in January 2003, Karl Taro Greenfeld was the editor of Time Asia in Hong Kong, just a few miles from the epicenter of the outbreak. Greenfeld and his staff soon found themselves immersed in the story of a lifetime....

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    • When Explorers Connected the World – and Globalisation Began
    • By: Valerie Hansen
    • Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 16-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • When did globalisation begin? Yale professor Valerie Hansen shows, it was the year 1000, when for the first time new trade routes linked the entire globe, so an object could in theory circumnavigate the world....

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    • Democracy Versus Autocracy from the Ancient World to the U.S. and China
    • By: Matthew Kroenig
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 24-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Matthew Kroenig advances the riveting argument that democracies tend to excel in great power rivalries. He contends that democracies actually have unique economic, diplomatic, and military advantages in long-run geopolitical competitions....

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    • The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
    • By: Frank Dikötter
    • Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
    • Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 23-05-24
    • Language: English
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    • Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake the West in less than fifteen years. It led to one of the world's greatest catastrophes.

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    • A Captivating Guide to the First and Second Opium War and Their Impact on the History of the United Kingdom and China
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 26-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • When diplomatic efforts to introduce opium to the Chinese market failed, the British Parliament approved an alternative: war. There were two wars: one from 1839 to 1842, and another from 1856 to 1860. They are collectively known as the Opium Wars....

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    • The History and Legacy of the 19th Century Conflicts Between Britain and China
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Bill Hare
    • Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
    • Release date: 18-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The Opium Wars: The History and Legacy of the 19th Century Conflicts Between Britain and China examines the way in which trade, colonialism, and illegal drug use culminated with one of the 19th century’s most controversial fights....

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    • Great World History, Book 1
    • By: The History Hour
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
    • Release date: 26-02-21
    • Language: English
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    • Much of the material in this book comes from The Bamboo Annals, The Records of the Grand Historian, and later historians who studied those sacred texts. The bamboo annals were discovered in AD 281, inside the tomb of King Xian....

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    • The Controversial History of Mao Zedong's Political Mass Movement After the Great Leap Forward
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston
    • Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 27-01-17
    • Language: English
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    • It's a sign of fame when a man is known simply by his first name, and Mao Zedong, often referred to as Mao or Chairman Mao, was one of the most influential men of the 20th century....

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    • Exploring the Addiction of Empires from Beginning to End
    • By: Adrian Ramos, History Compacted
    • Narrated by: Michael Goodrick
    • Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • China loomed large on the world stage. Wealth, power, and hundreds of years of rule by the Manchus of the Qing Dynasty catapulted them to new heights, but with power and prestige came those who would do anything to usurp their authority and undermine their sense of stability....

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    • The Roots of World War I and the Risk of U.S.-China Conflict
    • By: Richard N. Rosecrance - editor, Steven E. Miller - editor
    • Narrated by: Darren Stephens
    • Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In The Next Great War?, experts reconsider the causes of World War I and explore whether the great powers of the 21st century can avoid the mistakes of Europe's statesmen in 1914....

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