Asian Studies

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    • Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America
    • By: Beth Lew-Williams
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Aquino
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In 1885, following the massacre of Chinese miners in Wyoming, communities throughout California and the Pacific Northwest harassed, assaulted, and expelled thousands of Chinese immigrants. The Chinese Must Go shows how American immigration policies incited this violence....

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    • Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman's Journey Through Afghanistan
    • By: Fariba Nawa
    • Narrated by: Holly Adams
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • An Afghan-American journalist offers a revealing look inside a country torn apart—from corrupt officials to warlords and child brides—while revisiting her own family's deep roots to the land....

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    • By: Shashi Tharoor
    • Narrated by: Andrew Hoffland
    • Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 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 History
    • By: Erika Lee
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 181 ratings
    • In the past 50 years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States....

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    • An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)
    • By: James C. Scott
    • Narrated by: Alex Boyles
    • Series: Yale Agrarian Studies Series
    • Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • From the acclaimed author and scholar James C. Scott comes the compelling account of Asian peoples who until recently have stemmed the vast tide of state-making to live at arm’s length from any organized state society.

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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 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....

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    • The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
    • By: Gordon H. Chang
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 128 ratings
    • A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now....

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    • A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
    • By: Yeonmi Park
    • Narrated by: Eji Kim
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6,187 ratings
    • In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions of North Korean people continue to endure to this day....

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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 281 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 Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
    • By: Helen Zia
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 515 ratings
    • The dramatic real-life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revolution....

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    • From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
    • By: Barbara Demick
    • Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • The heartrending story of twin sisters torn apart by China’s one-child policy and the rise of international adoption—from the author of the National Book Award finalist Nothing to Envy.

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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 293 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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    • On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans
    • By: David L. Eng, Shinhee Han
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han draw on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to Generation Y....

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    • 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 141 ratings
    • South Korea's amazing rise from the ashes: the inside story of an economic, political, and cultural phenomenon....

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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 559 ratings
    • In the eyes of eighteen-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken—with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity—is that he is exactly like everyone else.

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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 150 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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    • Conversations on Race, Affirmative Action, and Family
    • By: OiYan A. Poon
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A mother and race scholar seeks to answer her daughter’s many questions about race and racism with an earnest exploration into race relations and affirmative action from the perspectives of Asian Americans....

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

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    • The Women Shaping the World's Next Superpower
    • By: Roseann Lake
    • Narrated by: Janet Song
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Forty years ago in China, marriage was universal, compulsory, and a woman's only means to a livelihood. Enter the one-child policy, which despite its horrors, resulted in China's first generations of urban only-daughters - girls who were raised without brothers....

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    • The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
    • By: Kenji Yoshino
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • Everyone covers. To cover is to downplay a disfavored trait so as to blend into the mainstream. Because all of us possess stigmatized attributes, we all encounter pressure to cover....

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