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    • Fourth and Revised Edition
    • By: Michael Yahuda
    • Narrated by: Richard Lyddon
    • Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
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    • This fully revised fourth edition of Michael Yahuda's successful textbook brings the region fully up-to-date, introducing students to the international politics of the Asia-Pacific region since 1945.

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    • A Warning to America
    • By: Col. Grant Newsham
    • Narrated by: Axel Bosley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • A warning about America’s impending war with China. The conflict is coming, a former Marine intelligence officer shows, and we’re not ready. But it’s not too late to prepare....

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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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    • Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?
    • By: Graham Allison
    • Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,082 ratings
    • When Athens went to war with Sparta some 2,500 years ago, the Greek historian Thucydides identified one simple cause: A rising power threatened to displace a ruling one....

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    • A New History
    • By: Christopher Goscha
    • Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
    • Length: 23 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • A major achievement, Vietnam offers the grand narrative of the country's complex past and the creation of the modern state of Vietnam....

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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 268 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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    • Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 291 ratings
    • This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion....

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    • By: Shashi Tharoor
    • Narrated by: Andrew Hoffland
    • Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • In Why I Am a Hindu, one of India’s finest public intellectuals gives us a profound book about one of the world’s oldest and greatest religions. Starting with a close examination of his own belief in Hinduism, he ranges far and wide in his study of the faith....

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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 169 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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    • How the Mongols Changed the World
    • By: Marie Favereau
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • Favereau takes us inside one of the most powerful sources of cross-border integration in world history. The Horde was the central node in the Eurasian commercial boom of the 13th and 14th centuries and was a conduit for exchanges across thousands of miles....

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    • The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream
    • By: Michael Wood
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Michael Wood has travelled the length and breadth of China, the world's oldest civilization and longest lasting state, to tell a thrilling story of intense drama, fabulous creativity, and deep humanity that stretches back thousands of years.

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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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    • 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 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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    • 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 265 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....

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    • The Secret Wisdom of the Samurai
    • By: Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Alexander Bennett - translator
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • The comprehensive and accurate edition of the Hagakure is a must-have for serious martial artists or fans of samurai and the Bushido code....

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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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    • 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 270 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....

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    • A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
    • By: Frank Dikotter
    • Narrated by: Bruce Mann
    • Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • Following the defeat of Chiang Kai-shek in 1949, after a bloody civil war, Mao hoisted the red flag over Beijing's Forbidden City, and the world watched as the Communist revolution began to wash away the old order....

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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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