China Economic History

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    • The Rise of a Superpower
    • By: Frank Dikötter
    • Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
    • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine comes a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of Chairman Mao....

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    • What Everyone Needs to Know®
    • By: Arthur R. Kroeber
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 238 ratings
    • China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know is a concise introduction to the most astonishing economic growth story of the last three decades. In the 1980s, China was an impoverished backwater. Today it is the world's second biggest economy....

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    • The Real Story of China in Africa
    • By: Deborah Brautigam
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • In the last few years, China's aid program has leapt out of the shadows. This well-timed book, by one of the world's leading experts, provides the first comprehensive account of China's aid and economic cooperation overseas....

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    • By: Yuen Yuen Ang
    • Narrated by: Catherine Ho
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • How can poor and weak societies escape poverty traps? Political economists have traditionally offered three answers. Yuen Yuen Ang rejects all three schools of thought and their underlying assumptions....

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    • A Concise Introduction to Chinese History, Culture, Dynasties, Mythology, Great Achievements & More of the Oldest Living Civilization
    • By: History Brought Alive
    • Narrated by: R. E. Harter
    • Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • While there are many books that explore China’s history, public knowledge is still lacking....

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    • The Ancient World Economy and the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia and Han China
    • By: Raoul McLaughlin
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
    • The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes investigates the trade routes between Rome and the powerful empires of inner Asia, including the Parthian regime which ruled ancient Persia (Iran)....

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    • An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower
    • By: Henry M. Paulson
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 352 ratings
    • Henry M. Paulson, Jr., former secretary of the US Treasury and CEO of Goldman Sachs, delivers a behind-the-scenes account of China's rise as an economic superpower....

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    • The Worker, the Factory, and the Future of the World
    • By: Dexter Roberts
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • The untold story of how restrictive policies are preventing China from becoming the world's largest economy....

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    • A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods
    • By: Amelia Pang
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • Discover the truth behind the discounts....

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    • The Present and Future of the World
    • By: Peter Frankopan
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 261 ratings
    • In The New Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan takes us on an eye-opening journey through the region, from China's breathtaking infrastructure investments to the flood of trade deals among Central Asian republics to the growing rapprochement between Turkey and Russia....

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    • Xi Jinping and His New China
    • By: Michael Sheridan
    • Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Xi Jinping rules over 1.4 billion people and the second biggest economy on earth. The book, based on new sources, leads the listener from the poor, isolated China of the 1950s to the modern economic and military juggernaut of today....

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    • By: Elizabeth C. Economy
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • An economic and military superpower with twenty percent of the world's population, China has the wherewithal to transform the international system. Xi Jinping's bold calls for China to "lead in the reform of the global governance system" suggest that he has just such an ambition....

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    • An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail
    • By: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: A. T. Chandler
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships....

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    • By: Eric Engle
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Discover the Epic Story of China: A Concise History from Ancient Dynasties to Modern Superpower! Quickly learn the fundamental facts of China with ...

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    • Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy
    • By: George Magnus
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 592 ratings
    • Will China rule the world, or will its dream turn into a nightmare? George Magnus, the trusted economic commentator on China, provides a penetrating account of the threats to China's continued rise....

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    • By: Yu Hua, Allan H. Barr - translator
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 290 ratings
    • China in Ten Words is a refreshingly candid vision of the “Chinese miracle” and all its consequences, from the singularly invaluable perspective of a writer living in China today....

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    • How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept
    • By: Robert Spalding
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,940 ratings
    • In Stealth War, retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Spalding reveals China's motives and secret attacks on the West....

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    • The Market Reform Debate
    • By: Isabella M. Weber
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitated the country's rise without leading to its wholesale assimilation to global neoliberalism. This book uncovers the fierce contest about economic reforms that shaped China's path....

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    • By: Ted C. Fishman
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 315 ratings
    • How has an enormous country once hobbled by poverty and Communist ideology come to be the supercharged center of global capitalism....

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