China Political History

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    • A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
    • By: Michael Booth
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other....

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    • Facing History
    • By: Ezra F. Vogel
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 22 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • China and Japan have cultural and political connections that stretch back 1,500 years. But today, their relationship is strained. Ezra Vogel's China and Japan examines key turning points in Sino-Japanese history....

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    • Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?
    • By: Graham Allison
    • Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,082 ratings
    • When Athens went to war with Sparta some 2,500 years ago, the Greek historian Thucydides identified one simple cause: A rising power threatened to displace a ruling one....

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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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    • By: China Miéville
    • Narrated by: China Miéville
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • In 1848, The Communist Manifesto was published by two émigrés from Germany. This is a strikingly imaginative take on Marx and what his most haunting book has to say to us today....

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    • The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
    • By: Richard McGregor
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 157 ratings
    • The Party is Financial Times reporter Richard McGregor's eye-opening investigation into China's Communist Party, and the integral role it has played in the country's rise as a global superpower and rival to the United States....

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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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    • America and China, 1776 to the Present
    • By: John Pomfret
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 30 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 189 ratings
    • Our relationship with China remains one of the most complex and rapidly evolving and is perhaps one of the most important to our nation's future....

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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 116 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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    • Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America
    • By: Jim Sciutto
    • Narrated by: Jim Sciutto
    • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 821 ratings
    • CNN’s chief national security correspondent reveals the invisible fronts of 21st-century warfare and identifies the ongoing battles being waged - often without the public’s full knowledge - from disinformation campaigns to advanced satellite weaponry....

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    • The Story of the Russian Revolution
    • By: China Mieville
    • Narrated by: John Banks
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 700 ratings
    • The renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Mieville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution....

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    • By: Daniel Kurtz-Phelan
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 417 ratings
    • A spellbinding narrative of the high-stakes mission that changed the course of America, China, and global politics - and a rich portrait of the towering, complex figure who carried it out....

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    • How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa
    • By: Howard W. French
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 299 ratings
    • An exciting, hugely revealing account of China’s burgeoning presence in Africa - a developing empire already shaping, and reshaping, the future of millions of people....

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    • Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China
    • By: Robert D. Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • Robert D. Kaplan explores Greater Middle East through reporting and travel writing to reveal deeper truths about the impacts of history on the present and how the requirements of stability over anarchy are often in conflict with the ideals of democratic governance.

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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 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 260 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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    • The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia
    • By: James Bradley
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-21-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 253 ratings
    • The China Mirage explores a difficult century that defines US-Chinese relations to this day....

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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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    • How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
    • By: Yasheng Huang PhD
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
    • Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Chinese society has been shaped by the interplay of the EAST—exams, autocracy, stability, and technology—from ancient times through the present. Chinese autocracies have developed exceptional tools for homogenizing ideas, norms, and practices. But this uniformity came with a huge downside....

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