Asian Culture

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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 47 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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 81 ratings
    • Listeners of this book will gain a clear understanding of what makes the Japanese, and their society, tick....

    Regular price: $17.19

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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: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 280 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • The Impossible Country
    • By: Daniel Tudor
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • South Korea's amazing rise from the ashes: the inside story of an economic, political, and cultural phenomenon....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 303 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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 187 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
    • By: Jason Stearns
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 290 ratings
    • At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal war....

    Regular price: $17.62

    • 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: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 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....

    Regular price: $9.45

    • By: Walter Simmons
    • Narrated by: Dana Fleming
    • Length: 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • For many years, Cambodia was a war-torn country. Recently, a new government has helped turn the economy around and given the Cambodian people more opportunity. Tourism has boomed, with many visitors heading to see Angkor Wat, one of the oldest religious temples in the world.

    Regular price: $6.99

    • 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 148 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 70 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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    • 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 708 ratings
    • Twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has brains, friends, and a bright future. Then Mao Zedong launches China’s infamous Cultural Revolution....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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 130 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....

    Regular price: $22.49

    • A History for Young People
    • By: Erika Lee, Christina Soontornvat
    • Narrated by: Sura Siu
    • Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Asian American history is not made up of one single story. It’s many. And it’s a story that too often goes untold. It begins centuries before America even exists as a nation....

    Regular price: $25.19

    • How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World
    • By: Matt Alt
    • Narrated by: Matt Alt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 282 ratings
    • The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that captured - and transformed - the world’s imagination....

    Regular price: $20.25

    • 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 37 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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 133 ratings
    • Iqbal, a 13-year-old boy, fights for children's liberation....

    Regular price: $9.45

    • By: Linda Sue Park
    • Narrated by: Norm Lee, Jennifer Ikeda
    • Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 205 ratings
    • Korean Sun-hee and her brother, Tae-yul, must study Japanese language and culture in school. The symbols of their beloved Korea can never be displayed or mentioned in public....

    Regular price: $17.19

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