Bestsellers
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中国通史 [A General History of China]
- 国学大师讲解中国历史 [A Chinese Studies Master Explains Chinese History]
- By: 吕思勉
- Narrated by: Marlena Smith
- Length: 30 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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内容简介:中国通史,全名:自学白话文适用。由陆思勉先生在多年教学讲课和历史研究的基础上完成,对中国历史感兴趣的读者一定要读这本书。
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History Alive: China’s Epic Audiobook
- By Anonymous User on 02-25-25
By: 吕思勉
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The Rape of Nanking
- By: Iris Chang
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In December 1937, in the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred.
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Powerful
- By Douglas on 09-05-09
By: Iris Chang
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The Hundred-Year Marathon
- China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
- By: Michael Pillsbury
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the US government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise - and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us....
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Fascinating perspective.
- By Rocky Mackintosh on 01-05-17
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Wild Swans
- Three Daughters of China
- By: Jung Chang
- Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
- Length: 22 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Few books have had such an impact: a popular best seller, a critically acclaimed history of China, a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty, and an uplifting story of bravery and survival....
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Accurate, moving and chilling
- By David on 12-15-12
By: Jung Chang
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Mao
- The Unknown Story
- By: Jung Chang, Jon Halliday
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 29 hrs and 50 mins
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The most authoritative biography of Mao ever written....
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Fills many gaps! Very good..but!
- By Jene on 08-07-06
By: Jung Chang, and others
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On China
- By: Henry Kissinger
- Narrated by: Nicholas Hormann
- Length: 20 hrs and 10 mins
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In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book length to a country he has known intimately for decades and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape....
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Another History of China
- By Elton on 09-23-11
By: Henry Kissinger
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中国通史 [A General History of China]
- 国学大师讲解中国历史 [A Chinese Studies Master Explains Chinese History]
- By: 吕思勉
- Narrated by: Marlena Smith
- Length: 30 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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内容简介:中国通史,全名:自学白话文适用。由陆思勉先生在多年教学讲课和历史研究的基础上完成,对中国历史感兴趣的读者一定要读这本书。
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History Alive: China’s Epic Audiobook
- By Anonymous User on 02-25-25
By: 吕思勉
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The Rape of Nanking
- By: Iris Chang
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In December 1937, in the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred.
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Powerful
- By Douglas on 09-05-09
By: Iris Chang
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The Hundred-Year Marathon
- China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
- By: Michael Pillsbury
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the US government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise - and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us....
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Fascinating perspective.
- By Rocky Mackintosh on 01-05-17
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Wild Swans
- Three Daughters of China
- By: Jung Chang
- Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
- Length: 22 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Few books have had such an impact: a popular best seller, a critically acclaimed history of China, a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty, and an uplifting story of bravery and survival....
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Accurate, moving and chilling
- By David on 12-15-12
By: Jung Chang
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Mao
- The Unknown Story
- By: Jung Chang, Jon Halliday
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 29 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The most authoritative biography of Mao ever written....
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Fills many gaps! Very good..but!
- By Jene on 08-07-06
By: Jung Chang, and others
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On China
- By: Henry Kissinger
- Narrated by: Nicholas Hormann
- Length: 20 hrs and 10 mins
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In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book length to a country he has known intimately for decades and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape....
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Another History of China
- By Elton on 09-23-11
By: Henry Kissinger
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The Snakehead
- An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
- By: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
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A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss....
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But Is It a Crime?
- By Roy on 08-23-09
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Let Only Red Flowers Bloom
- Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping's China
- By: Emily Feng
- Narrated by: Emily Feng
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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A “gripping and scrupulously reported” (The Washington Post) investigation into the battle over identity in China, chronicling the state oppression of those who fail to conform to Xi Jinping’s definition of who is “Chinese,” from an award-winning NPR correspondent.
By: Emily Feng
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Narcotopia
- In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the CIA
- By: Patrick Winn
- Narrated by: Patrick Winn
- Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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In Asia’s narcotics-producing heartland, the Wa reign supreme. They dominate the Golden Triangle, a mountainous stretch of Burma between Thailand and China. Their 30,000-strong army, wielding missiles and attack drones, makes Mexican cartels look like street gangs....
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A must listen for Asia history buffs
- By philip beere on 03-01-24
By: Patrick Winn
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To Overthrow the World
- The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
- By: Sean McMeekin
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
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Award-winning historian Sean McMeekin investigates the evolution of Communism from a seductive ideal of a classless society into the ruling doctrine of tyrannical regimes.
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An informative tale of plots and revolution that, tragically, loses the plot itself
- By Anonymous User on 12-22-24
By: Sean McMeekin
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Why Taiwan Matters
- A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate Our Future
- By: Kerry Brown
- Narrated by: Kerry Brown
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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Taiwan expert Kerry Brown sums up the history of Taiwan and the danger of a Chinese takeover in this succinct and authoritative book.
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Redundant
- By Phillip Enoch on 03-06-25
By: Kerry Brown
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Mao's Great Famine
- The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
- By: Frank Dikötter
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
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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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how it describes the horrors with anecdotes and then uses stats to show bot only did it happen but also that it was common
- By Donald on 06-28-24
By: Frank Dikötter
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Tides of Fortune
- The Rise and Decline of Great Militaries
- By: Zack Cooper
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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An ambitious look at how the twentieth century's great powers devised their military strategies and what their implications mean for military competition between the United States and China.
By: Zack Cooper
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The Search for Modern China
- By: Jonathan D. Spence
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 36 hrs and 52 mins
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The history of China is as rich and strange as that of any country on earth. Yet for many, China’s history remains unknown....
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Excellent book, lazy narrator
- By Delano on 10-19-12
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Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden
- Two Sisters Separated by China’s Civil War
- By: Zhuqing Li
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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Scions of a once-great southern Chinese family that produced the tutor of the last emperor, Jun and Hong were each other’s best friends until, in their twenties, they were separated at the end of the Chinese Civil War. One became a model Communist, the other a model capitalist....
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Wonderful Story of a Family’s Survival Through Political Change…
- By Marie G. on 04-12-23
By: Zhuqing Li
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1421
- The Year China Discovered America
- By: Gavin Menzies
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
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On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China....
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Would have been a good novel...
- By curtcannon on 05-08-19
By: Gavin Menzies
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The Cultural Revolution
- A People's History, 1962—1976
- By: Frank Dikötter
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
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Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'definitive and harrowing', this is the final volume of ‘The People’s Trilogy', begun by the Samuel Johnson prize-winning Mao's Great Famine....
By: Frank Dikötter
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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night
- A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
- By: Tahir Hamut Izgil, Joshua L. Freeman - introduction translator
- Narrated by: Greg Watanabe
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide.
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Waiting to be arrested
- By Johnson Kottaram on 09-10-23
By: Tahir Hamut Izgil, and others
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Chinese Communist Espionage
- An Intelligence Primer
- By: Peter Mattis, Matthew Brazil
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Peter Mattis and Matthew Brazil present an unprecedented look into the murky world of Chinese espionage both past and present, enabling a better understanding of how pervasive and important its influence is, both in China and abroad....
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Unrelenting Mangled Chinese Listening Unbearable
- By Anonymous User on 03-20-21
By: Peter Mattis, and others
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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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Xi and the CCP Approve this Message
- By Andrizomai on 12-04-22
By: Kevin Rudd
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Red Roulette
- 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
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This bestseller is narrated by a man who, with his wife, Whitney Duan, rose to the top levels of power and wealth—and then fell out of favor. Whitney had been disappeared four years before, but this book led to her dramatic reemergence....
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Desmond Shum is not a rube! He knows about wine, ok?
- By Peter L Hansen on 10-06-21
By: Desmond Shum
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The Last Kings of Shanghai
- The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
- By: Jonathan Kaufman
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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An epic multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as 20th-century China surged into the modern era, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist....
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Great story with careless flaws
- By pjdusa on 10-20-20
By: Jonathan Kaufman
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Raiders, Rulers, and Traders
- The Horse and the Rise of Empires
- By: David Chaffetz
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
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No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a slight, shy animal, hunted for food. Domesticating the horse allowed early humans to settle the vast Eurasian steppe....
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Amazing breath of scope
- By neale aslett on 02-12-25
By: David Chaffetz
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Out of the Gobi
- My Story of China and America
- By: Weijian Shan, Janet Yellen - foreword
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
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Weijian Shan's Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books on China of our time, one with the potential to re-shape how Americans view China, and how the Chinese view life in America....
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Must read for anyone!
- By Alice654 on 06-19-19
By: Weijian Shan, and others
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Age of Ambition
- Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
- By: Evan Osnos
- Narrated by: Evan Osnos, George Backman
- Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
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A vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformation....
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Come back when you have a warrant!
- By Neuron on 11-06-15
By: Evan Osnos
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Imperial Twilight
- The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
- By: Stephen R. Platt
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
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As one of the most potent turning points in the country's modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today's China seeks to put behind it....
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Balanced readable narrative about the Opium Wars
- By Carl A. Gallozzi on 09-05-18
By: Stephen R. Platt
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China's New Navy
- The Evolution of PLAN from the People's Revolution to a 21st Century Cold War
- By: Xiaobing Li
- Narrated by: Kathleen Li
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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A survey of Chinese naval operational history, Li's book focuses on the major battles and important engagements of Chinese naval operations from 1949-2009.
By: Xiaobing Li
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The Flying Tigers
- The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan
- By: Sam Kleiner
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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The thrilling story behind the American pilots who were secretly recruited to defend the nation’s desperate Chinese allies before Pearl Harbor and ended up on the front lines of the war against the Japanese in the Pacific....
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This really happened.
- By Jason on 07-26-20
By: Sam Kleiner
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The Art of War
- By: Sun Tzu
- Narrated by: Kenneth Elliot
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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The Art of War, literally The Laws of War by Master Sun is the most famous ancient Chinese treatise, dedicated to a military strategy and policy, written by Sun Tzu...
By: Sun Tzu
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Attila
- The Barbarian King Who Challenged Rome
- By: John Man
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
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In the years 434-454 A.D., the fate of Europe hung upon the actions of one man: Attila, king of the Huns....
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An Attilaian Apologist
- By KM on 05-08-08
By: John Man