Asian Studies

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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 7 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.

    Regular price: $20.97

    • 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 127 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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....

    Regular price: $17.62

    • 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....

    Regular price: $2.06

    • 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 291 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....

    Regular price: $21.04

    • 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 25 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.

    Regular price: $19.80

    • 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 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....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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 6,172 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....

    Regular price: $18.00

    • 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

    • Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
    • By: S. Frederick Starr
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 25 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 509 ratings
    • Lost Enlightenment chronicles this forgotten age of achievement, seeks to explain its rise, and explores the competing theories about the cause of its eventual demise....

    Regular price: $39.95

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

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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....

    Regular price: $20.00

    • The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
    • By: Martin Jacques
    • Narrated by: Scott Peterson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 226 ratings
    • According to even the most conservative estimates, China will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by 2027....

    Regular price: $30.08

    • The Grand Master’s Insights on China, United States, and the World
    • By: Graham Allison, Robert D. Blackwill, Ali Wyne
    • Narrated by: Michael McConnohie, Francis Chau
    • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,050 ratings
    • Lee, the founding father of modern Singapore and its prime minister from 1959 to 1990, has honed his wisdom during more than fifty years on the world stage....

    Regular price: $14.95

    • 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....

    Regular price: $21.84

    • 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

    • 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 557 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.

    Regular price: $18.00