Asian Memoir

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Hua Hsu
    • Narrated by: Hua Hsu
    • Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 501 ratings
    • New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu shares a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art.

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    • An Undiplomatic Memoir
    • By: KIshore Mahbubani
    • Narrated by: Remesh Panicker
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-24
    • Language: English
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    • In this stirring memoir, a preeminent politician and diplomat traces the transformation of the Republic of Singapore from a poor colony into an Asian powerhouse.

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    • An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents
    • By: Jimmy O. Yang, Mike Judge - foreword
    • Narrated by: Jimmy O. Yang, Mike Judge
    • Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,350 ratings
    • Jimmy O. Yang is a stand-up comedian, film and TV actor and fan favorite as the character Jian Yang from the popular HBO series Silicon Valley....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Connie Chung
    • Narrated by: Connie Chung
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Nick Brokhausen
    • Narrated by: George Spelvin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,961 ratings
    • Whispers in the Tall Grass is the second volume of Nick's riveting memoir of his time with MACV-SOG....

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    • US Special Forces in Vietnam
    • By: Nick Brokhausen
    • Narrated by: George Spelvin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,723 ratings
    • A Green Beret's gripping memoir of American Special Forces in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War....

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    • A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
    • By: Loung Ung
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,201 ratings
    • One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five....

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    • A Hmong Family Memoir
    • By: Kao Kalia Yang
    • Narrated by: Kao Kalia Yang
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-17-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 278 ratings
    • In the 70s and 80s, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to the United States....

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    • Meiji and His World, 1852-1912
    • By: Donald Keene
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 38 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Little has been written about the strangely obscured figure of Meiji himself, the first Japanese emperor ever to meet a European. But now, Donald Keene sifts the available evidence to present a rich portrait not only of Meiji but also of change during this period in Japan's history....

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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 682 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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    • By: Ezra F. Vogel
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 33 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 330 ratings
    • Once described by Mao Zedong as a "needle inside a ball of cotton", Deng was the pragmatic yet disciplined driving force behind China's radical transformation in the late 20th century....

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    • The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China
    • By: Paul Kramer, Henry Pu Yi
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 01-27-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • In 1908, at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the centuries-old Manchu dynasty....

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    • The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948
    • By: Ramachandra Guha
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 36 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • Author Ramachandra Guha has drawn on 60 different archival collections to reconstruct social and political activist Mohandas Gandhi's life and work....

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    • By: Herbert P. Bix
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 29 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose 63-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world....

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    • The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
    • By: Michael Norman, Elizabeth Norman
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,373 ratings
    • For the first four months of 1942, U.S., Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought what was America's first major land battle of World War II, the battle for the tiny Philippine peninsula of Bataan....

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    • L Company Rangers in Vietnam, 1969
    • By: Gary A. Linderer
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Series: Gary A. Linderer Vietnam Autobiographies, Book 2
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 420 ratings
    • In mid-December 1968, after recovering from wounds sustained in a murderous mission, Gary Linderer returned to Phu Bai to complete his tour of duty as a LRP. His job was to find the enemy, observe him, or kill him - all the while behind enemy lines....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Nicole Chung
    • Narrated by: Janet Song
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 466 ratings
    • Nicole Chung tells of her search for the people who gave her up, which coincided with the birth of her own child. All You Can Ever Know is a profound, moving chronicle of surprising connections and the repercussions of unearthing painful family secrets....

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    • A Marine's True Story of Duty and Heroism in Vietnam
    • By: Michael C. Hodgins
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • By the spring of 1970, American troops were ordered to pull out of Vietnam. The Marines of First Reconnaissance Battalion, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel "Wild Bill" Drumright, were assigned to cover the withdrawal of First Marine Division....

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    • An Infantryman's Life After World War II
    • By: E. B. Sledge, Stephen E. Ambrose
    • Narrated by: Dan John Miller
    • Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 588 ratings
    • Picking up where his previous memoir leaves off, Sledge, a young marine, charts his own difficult passage to peace following his horrific experiences in the Pacific....

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