Asian Women Memoir

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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 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 138 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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    • The Fight for Our Future
    • By: Maria Ressa
    • Narrated by: Maria Ressa, Rebecca Mozo
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 257 ratings
    • From the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize comes an impassioned and inspiring memoir that chronicles her career fighting fascism, filled with insights and advice for standing against authoritarian bullies and confronting disinformation and lies. It includes a foreword by Amal Clooney.

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    • A Partial Autobiography
    • By: Emily Hahn
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 22 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • China to Me is a candid, rollicking literary travelogue from a pioneering New Yorker writer, an intrepid heroine who documented China in the years before World War II....

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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 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 2,514 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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    • By: Emily Hahn
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • In the early 20th century, few women in China were to prove so important to the rise of Chinese nationalism and liberation from tradition as the three extraordinary Soong sisters: Eling, Chingling, and Mayling. The biography of the Soong sisters tells the story of China through both world wars....

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    • One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment
    • By: Kimi Cunningham Grant
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 401 ratings
    • Kimi’s Obaachan, her grandmother, had always been a silent presence throughout her youth.....

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    • Three Daughters of China
    • By: Jung Chang
    • Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
    • Length: 22 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-13-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,967 ratings
    • Few books have had such an impact: a popular best seller, a critically acclaimed history of China, a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty, and an uplifting story of bravery and survival....

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    • The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
    • By: Jung Chang
    • Narrated by: Jolene Kim
    • Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 431 ratings
    • Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age....

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    • How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
    • By: Jack Weatherford
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 735 ratings
    • The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the greatest empire the world has ever known. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section from The Secret History of the Mongols, leaving a single tantalizing quote from Genghis Khan: “Let us reward our female offspring”....

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    • One Woman's Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future
    • By: Fawzia Koofi, Nadene Ghouri
    • Narrated by: Emily Durante
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • The 19th daughter of a local village leader in rural Afghanistan, Fawzia Koofi was left to die in the sun after birth by her mother....

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    • The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home
    • By: Heath Hardage Lee
    • Narrated by: Heath Hardage Lee
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • The true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington - and Hanoi - to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam....

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    • Women of War, Book 8
    • By: History Nerds
    • Narrated by: Ailish Jeffers
    • Series: Women of War, Book 8
    • Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-24
    • Language: English
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    • In the turbulent twilight of the Samurai era, when Japan was gripped by the Boshin War, one woman rose to embody the spirit of bushido with unparalleled courage and indomitable will.

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    • The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo - and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
    • By: Richard Lloyd Parry
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,985 ratings
    • Lucie Blackman - tall, blond, 21 years old - stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000 and disappeared....

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    • A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels
    • By: Isabel Sun Chao, Claire Chao
    • Narrated by: Rachel Yong, Claire Chao, Isabel Sun Chao
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • Meticulously researched, Remembering Shanghai follows five generations, from vibrant Shanghai to the bright lights of Hong Kong. By turns harrowing and heartwarming, this vivid memoir explores identity and loss against the epic backdrop of a country in turmoil....

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    • A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa
    • By: Jim Towey
    • Narrated by: Jim Towey
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • From a trusted advisor and devoted friend of Mother Teresa comes an extraordinary firsthand account of the miraculous woman behind the saint.

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    • A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
    • By: Rabia Chaudry
    • Narrated by: Rabia Chaudry
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 377 ratings
    • From the bestselling author and host of the wildly popular Undisclosed podcast, a warm, intimate memoir about food, body image, and growing up in a loving but sometimes oppressively concerned Pakistani immigrant family....

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    • Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary
    • By: Anita Anand
    • Narrated by: Tania Rodriguez
    • Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In 1876 Sophia Duleep Singh was born into Indian royalty. Her father, Maharajah Duleep Singh, was heir to the Kingdom of the Sikhs. But Sophia transcended her heritage to devote herself to battling injustice and inequality, a far cry from the life to which she was born....

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    • The Story of an Unlikely Hero of World War II
    • By: Ben Montgomery
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • The GIs called her Joey. Hundreds owed their lives to the tiny Filipina who stashed explosives in spare tires, tracked Japanese troop movements, and smuggled maps of fortifications....

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