Asian Nonfiction

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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 710 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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    • War in the Far East Series, Book 1
    • By: Peter Harmsen
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Series: War in the Far East, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Storm Clouds over the Pacific begins the story long before Pearl Harbor, showing how the war can only be understood if ancient hatreds and long-standing geopolitics are taken into account....

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    • Collected Nonfiction
    • By: Arundhati Roy
    • Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
    • Length: 36 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights, and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment....

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    • A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There
    • By: Yijie Zhuang
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Li
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • We meet one of twenty-four citizens of this ancient culture, from the midwife to the soldier, the priest to the performer, and the blacksmith to the tomb looter, and see what an average day in ancient China was really like....

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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 55 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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    • A North Korean Defector’s Story
    • By: Hyeonseo Lee, David John
    • Narrated by: Josie Dunn
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,616 ratings
    • An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom....

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    • A Story of Scams, Slavery, and Survival in Southeast Asia
    • By: Richard Alanson
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-15-25
    • Language: English
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    • THE PIG BUTCHERS OF CAMBODIA A Story of Scams, Slavery, and Survival in Southeast Asia They answered job ads. They were trafficked. Then they were ...

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    • By: John Hersey
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 391 ratings
    • On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and compassionate document has become a classic....

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    • The Story of Ashoka
    • By: Uma Krishnaswami
    • Narrated by: David Armstrong
    • Length: 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • King Ashoka was a fearsome conqueror in ancient India. After seeing the destruction and death from his battles, he decided to forgo war and institute peace and Buddhism in his kingdom. Learn about his peaceful reign and the lasting changes he created in India.

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    • By: Walter Simmons
    • Narrated by: Dana Fleming
    • Length: 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • China, with over one billion people, is the most populated country in the world. China’s most famous tourist attraction is the Great Wall, which runs across about 5,000 miles of northern China. Rich with Chinese culture, this title explores Chinese food, holidays, and daily life.

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    • Asian Animals
    • By: Lyn A. Sirota
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Giant pandas munch on bamboo. Learn all about these gentle bears and their habitats in Giant Pandas....

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    • World Passport
    • By: Nancy Dickmann
    • Narrated by: uncredited
    • Length: 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-24
    • Language: English
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    • What is it like to live in or visit Sri Lanka? What makes Sri Lanka’s culture unique? Explore the geography, traditions, and daily lives of Sri Lankan people.

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    • By: Colleen Sexton
    • Narrated by: Dana Fleming
    • Series: Exploring Countries
    • Length: 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Japan is a nation made up of many islands in the western Pacific Ocean. Over 100 million people live in this small nation of islands. Many live in the countryside, but millions live in crowded cities like Tokyo.

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    • By: Eric Lomax
    • Narrated by: Bill Paterson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 170 ratings
    • A naive young man, a railway enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942....

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    • The Story of the Thai Cave Rescue
    • By: Marc Aronson
    • Narrated by: Vikas Adam
    • Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • This is the incredible true story of the 12 boys trapped with their coach in a flooded cave in Thailand and their inspiring rescue. Award-winning author Marc Aronson brings us the backstory behind how this astounding rescue took place....

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    • Samurai, Spirits, Emperors, Myths, Magic & More from Japan
    • By: History Brought Alive
    • Narrated by: Guy Barnes
    • Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Get ready to hop on a mythical time machine and travel to Japan—a land of legendary samurai, magical creatures, and ancient wisdom!

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