Chinese Biography

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    • A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History
    • By: Lan Yan
    • Narrated by: Angela Lin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 28-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Through the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family’s history through early 20th century to present day....

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    • By: Adeline Yen Mah
    • Narrated by: Adeline Yen Mah
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • In Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah returns to her roots to tell the story of her painful childhood and her ultimate triumph and courage in the face of despair....

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    • A Chinese Education
    • By: Peter Hessler
    • Narrated by: Peter Hessler
    • Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 29-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Peter Hessler is able to tell an intimately unique story about China's incredible transformation over the past quarter-century.

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    • An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today's China
    • By: Desmond Shum
    • Narrated by: Tim Chiou
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 215 ratings
    • In the headline-making and best-selling tradition of Bill Browder’s Red Notice comes a riveting memoir from a man who rose within the ranks of China’s ultra-rich only to see his business partner-wife mysteriously vanish....

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    • The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun
    • By: Brother Yun
    • Narrated by: Cristofer Jean
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-09
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 181 ratings
    • The dramatic autobiography of one of China's dedicated, courageous, and intensely persecuted house church leaders....

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    • The True Story of a Chinese Christian's Fight for Freedom
    • By: Bob Fu, Nancy French
    • Narrated by: Hayden Lee
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • God’s people are hiding in plain sightTens of millions of Christians live in China today, leading double lives to hide from a government that relentlessly persecutes them....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Connie Chung
    • Narrated by: Connie Chung
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • In a sharp, witty, and definitive memoir like no other, iconic trailblazer and legendary journalist Connie Chung delves into her storied career as the first Asian woman to break into an overwhelmingly white, male-dominated television news industry.

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    • The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975
    • By: Alexander V. Pantsov, Steven I. Levine - translator
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 25 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century's most powerful and controversial figures, Victorious in Defeat provides a detailed portrait of a man who ranks with Stalin, Roosevelt, Hitler, Churchill, and Gandhi as leaders who shaped our world....

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    • Love and Loss in Modern China
    • By: Xinran Xue
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • At the start of the 20th century in China, the Hans were married in an elaborate ceremony before they were even born....

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    • A Partial Autobiography
    • By: Emily Hahn
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 22 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 13-11-18
    • Language: English
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    • China to Me is a candid, rollicking literary travelogue from a pioneering New Yorker writer, an intrepid heroine who documented China in the years before World War II....

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    • A Life of Li Bai (Li Po)
    • By: Ha Jin
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 15-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting: a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai - also known as Li Po....

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    • The Schindler of Nanjing
    • By: Peter Harmsen
    • Narrated by: Tom Campbell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 30-07-24
    • Language: English
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    • In December 1937, the Chinese capital, Nanjing, falls and the Japanese army unleash an orgy of torture, murder, and rape. The Danish supervisor at a cement plant just outside the city, 26-year-old Bernhard Arp Sindberg, opens the factory gates and welcomes in 10,000 Chinese civilians to safety.

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    • A Love Affair with China Gone Wrong
    • By: Susan Blumberg-Kason
    • Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Moving between rural China and the bustling cities of Hong Kong and San Francisco, Good Chinese Wife is an eye-opening look at marriage and family in contemporary China and America and an inspiring testament to the resilience of a mother’s love - across any border....

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    • The History and Legacy of China’s Most Famous Organized Crime Syndicates
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Scott Clem
    • Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-20
    • Language: English
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    • From running guns to white-collar crimes in cyberspace and illegal seafood, the Triads, the mafia of China, are potent figures in the world of organized crime. Going by enigmatic names like the 14K Triad and the United Bamboo Gang, these criminal groups are enormous....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Curtis Chin
    • Narrated by: Curtis Chin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-23
    • Language: English
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    • Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung’s Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone—from the city’s first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big-time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couples—could sit down for a warm, home-cooked meal....

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    • By: Anne Frank
    • Narrated by: 海音筱梦 - 海音筱夢 - Haiyinxiaomeng
    • Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-17
    • Language: Mandarin Chinese
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 《安妮日记》是德籍犹太人安妮·弗兰克写的日记,记录其藏身密室时的生活和情感。战争结束,安妮的父亲奥托·弗兰克决定完成女儿的夙愿,将日记出版问世。…… 《安妮日記》是德籍猶太人安妮·法蘭克寫的日記,記錄其藏身密室時的生活和情感。戰爭結束,安妮的父親奧托·弗蘭克決定完成女兒的夙願,將日記出版問世。

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    • A Succulent Chinese Meal, Mr. Rent-a-Kill and the Australian Manson Murders
    • By: Mark Dapin
    • Narrated by: Henry Nixon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Millions have been entertained by the viral video of a man being arrested after a ‘succulent Chinese meal’. But when Mark Dapin investigated, it emerged that this man's story went to the heart of the Australian underworld. A true crime cult classic in the making....

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    • Mao's Dog, Deng's Cat, and Five Timeless Lessons for Understanding China
    • By: Tim Clissold
    • Narrated by: Stephen Critchlow
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 23-10-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • From the author of the acclaimed ‘Mr. China' comes another rollicking adventure story - part memoir, part history, part business imbroglio - that offers valuable lessons to help Westerners win in China....

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