Asia Culture

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    • Commerce, Conflict and Culture in the 21st Century
    • By: Parag Khanna
    • Narrated by: Nezar Alderazi
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • In the 19th century, the world was Europeanized. In the 20th century, it was Americanized. Now, in the 21st century, the world is being Asianized....

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    • The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
    • By: Culture Smart!
    • Narrated by: Charles Armstrong, Anna Bentinck, Peter Noble
    • Length: 18 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-23
    • Language: English
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    • This collection of Culture Smart guidebooks introduces listeners to China, Japan, and India. Each guidebook includes concise chapters on the local customs, traditions, and values of the country's inhabitants and, crucially, the key historical and cultural events that have shaped them....

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    • Your Multicultural Guide to Building Trust, Inspiring Respect, and Creating Long-Lasting Business Relationship
    • By: Sharon Schweitzer JD, Liz Alexander PhD, Bob Waisfisz - foreword
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Effective cross-cultural communication is mandatory for today's successful global business leaders. For companies and individuals looking to engage more successfully with their counterparts in Asia, Access to Asia showcases the critical people skills that drive global business success....

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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: 09-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • Listeners of this book will gain a clear understanding of what makes the Japanese, and their society, tick....

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    • Patterns of Japanese Culture
    • By: Ruth Benedict
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 02-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Essential for anyone interested in Japanese culture, this unsurpassed masterwork opens an intriguing window on Japan. The World War II-era study by the cultural anthropologist Ruth Benedict paints an illuminating contrast between the people of Japan and those of the United States....

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    • A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
    • By: Ji-li Jiang
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 679 ratings
    • Twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has brains, friends, and a bright future. Then Mao Zedong launches China’s infamous Cultural Revolution....

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    • Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
    • By: Michael Dylan Foster
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 267 ratings
    • Drawing on years of research in Japan, Michael Dylan Foster unpacks the history and cultural context of yokai, tracing their roots, interpreting their meanings, and introducing people who have hunted them through the ages....

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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: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 168 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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    • 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: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 129 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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    • Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the “Riches of the East”
    • By: Stewart Gordon
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Author Stewart Gordon has fashioned a fascinating and unique look at Asia from AD 700 to 1500, a time when Asia was the world, by describing the personal journeys of Asia's many travelers....

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    • By: Grace Lin
    • Narrated by: Angela Lin
    • Series: A Pacy Lin Novel, Book 3
    • Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • With her inspired works, acclaimed author Grace Lin has earned a Geisel Honor and a Newbery Honor. In Dumpling Days, Pacy’s family travels to Taiwan for a month....

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    • The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia
    • By: Pankaj Mishra
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • A little more than a century ago, original thinkers across Asia, working independently, sought to frame a distinctly Asian intellectual tradition....

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    • By: Francesco D'Adamo
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • Iqbal, a 13-year-old boy, fights for children's liberation....

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    • By: Nizrana Farook
    • Narrated by: Aysha Kala
    • Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Author Nizrana Farook makes her middle-grade debut in a daring tale of friendship, risk, and reward, all set against the lush backdrop of Sri Lanka....

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    • 3 Novellas
    • By: Neon Yang
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Series: Tensorate Series, Book 1-3
    • Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • In this bundle, discover The Black Tides of Heaven, The Red Threads of Fortune, and The Descent of Monsters. Author Neon Yang redefines the limits of silkpunk fantasy with the Tensorate novellas....

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    • By: Leslea Newman
    • Narrated by: James Yaegashi
    • Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Every morning in the Japanese town of Shibuya, Professor Ueno awakens and is greeted by his loyal Akita dog, Hachiko....

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    • By: Elizabeth Partridge
    • Narrated by: June Angela
    • Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • This important work of nonfiction discusses powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration captured by three photographers—Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams—along with firsthand accounts of this grave moment in history....

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    • By: Amina Akhtar, Mindy Kaling - introduction
    • Narrated by: Kelsey Jaffer, full cast
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 315 ratings
    • A psychological thriller with a twist, Almost Surely Dead is a chilling account of how one woman’s life spins out of control after a terrifying—and seemingly random—attempt on her life....

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    • My Own Story
    • By: Jean Fritz
    • Narrated by: Jean Fritz
    • Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • This heartwarming fictionalized autobiography tells the story of what it is like for a little girl to be growing up in an unfamiliar place....

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