China Great History

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    • Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
    • By: Tim Marshall
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Series: Politics of Place
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,822 ratings
    • Whether ancient, crumbling parchments or generated by Google, maps tell us things we want to know, not only about our current location but about the world in general....

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    • China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
    • By: Chen Jian, Odd Arne Westad
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 14 hrs
    • Release date: 10-29-24
    • Language: English
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    • Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped their lives during Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

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    • China and the World
    • By: Timothy Brook
    • Narrated by: Timothy Brook
    • Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Timothy Brook analyzes the last eight centuries of China’s relationship with the world in this magnificent history that brings together accounts from civil servants, horse traders, spiritual leaders, explorers, pirates, emperors, migrant workers, invaders, visionaries, and traitors....

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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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    • Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans, and the End of the Chinese Miracle
    • By: Dinny McMahon
    • Narrated by: Jamie Jackson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 264 ratings
    • A stunning inside look at how and why the foundations upon which China has built the world’s second largest economy have started to crumble....

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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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    • How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History
    • By: Sarah Rose
    • Narrated by: Sarah Rose
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 286 ratings
    • Here is the remarkable account of Robert Fortune's journeys into China - a thrilling narrative that combines history, geography, botany, natural science, and old-fashioned adventure....

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    • A History
    • By: John Keay
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 25 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 219 ratings
    • Crisp, judicious, and engaging, China is the classic single-volume history for anyone seeking to understand the present and future of this immensely powerful nation....

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    • A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
    • By: Yang Jisheng, Stacy Mosher - translator, Guo Jian - translator
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 26 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Following his groundbreaking and award-winning history of the Great Famine, Yang Jisheng presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution to understanding those years' lasting influence today....

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    • Russia, China, and the Next World War
    • By: Jim Sciutto
    • Narrated by: Jim Sciutto
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • The essential new book by CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto, reporting from the front lines of political hotspots and warzones across the globe....

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    • The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
    • By: Frank Dikötter
    • Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
    • Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake the West in less than fifteen years. It led to one of the world's greatest catastrophes.

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    • Democracy Versus Autocracy from the Ancient World to the U.S. and China
    • By: Matthew Kroenig
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • Matthew Kroenig advances the riveting argument that democracies tend to excel in great power rivalries. He contends that democracies actually have unique economic, diplomatic, and military advantages in long-run geopolitical competitions....

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    • Investing Profitably in the World's Greatest Market
    • By: Jim Rogers
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-07
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • If the 20th century was the American century, then the 21st century belongs to China....

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    • The History of China's Most Famous Landmark
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Violet Meadow
    • Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • The Great Wall of China is perhaps the wonder of the world that has most captured the human imagination....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the Ancient History of China and the Chinese Civilization Starting from the Shang Dynasty to the Fall of the Han Dynasty
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Desmond Manny
    • Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • Dynasties will change, people will be killed and born, art made and destroyed, but the Chinese civilization will prevail, rising from humble beginnings to an empire that at some points outshined any other in the world at that time....

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    • The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
    • By: Frank Dikötter
    • Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
    • Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-24
    • Language: English
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    • Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake the West in less than fifteen years. It led to one of the world's greatest catastrophes.

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    • The Novel
    • By: Edward Rutherfurd
    • Narrated by: Daniel York Loh, Zheng Xi Yong, Andrew Wincott
    • Length: 34 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 514 ratings
    • Edward Rutherfurd has enthralled millions of people with his grand, sweeping historical sagas that tell the history of a famous place over multiple generations. Now, in China: The Novel, Rutherfurd takes listeners into the rich and fascinating milieu of the Middle Kingdom....

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    • The Bubble That Never Pops
    • By: Thomas Orlik
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • The Chinese economy appears destined for failure, the financial bubble forever in peril of popping, the real estate sector doomed to collapse, the factories fated for bankruptcy....

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