Chinese Biography

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Curtis Chin
    • Narrated by: Curtis Chin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung’s Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone—from the city’s first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big-time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couples—could sit down for a warm, home-cooked meal....

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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 11 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: Jade Snow Wong
    • Narrated by: Andi Arndt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Originally published in 1945 and now reissued with a new introduction by the author, Jade Snow Wong's story is one of struggle and achievements....

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    • Imperialism, Organized Crime, and the Hidden Story of China's Stolen Artistic Treasures
    • By: Ralph Pezzullo
    • Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-25
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The extraordinary story of the theft of priceless Chinese antiques around the world and the connection to crimes spanning more than two centuries—with present-day implications.

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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 1,990 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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    • A Memoir
    • By: Qian Julie Wang
    • Narrated by: Qian Julie Wang
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,129 ratings
    • An incandescent memoir from an astonishing new talent, Beautiful Country puts listeners in the shoes of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world....

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    • A Chinese Education
    • By: Peter Hessler
    • Narrated by: Peter Hessler
    • Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • Author Peter Hessler provides an intimate and revelatory account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, by an author who has observed the country’s tumultuous changes over the past quarter century.

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    • The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company
    • By: Eva Dou
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • Washington Post technology reporter Eva Dou pieces together a remarkable portrait of Huawei’s reclusive founder Ren Zhengfei and how he built a sprawling corporate empire—one whose rise Western policymakers have become increasingly obsessed with halting.

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 434 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 True Story of a Chinese Christian's Fight for Freedom
    • By: Bob Fu, Nancy French
    • Narrated by: Hayden Lee
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 841 ratings
    • God’s people are hiding in plain sightTens of millions of Christians live in China today, leading double lives to hide from a government that relentlessly persecutes them....

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    • The Chinese Empress Who Schemed, Seduced and Murdered Her Way to Become a Living God
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Li
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Jonathan Clements weighs the evidence of Empress Wu Zetian's life and legacy: so charismatic that she could rise from nothing to the height of medieval power, so hated that her own children left her tombstone blank.

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    • An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China
    • By: Desmond Shum
    • Narrated by: Tim Chiou
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,066 ratings
    • This bestseller is narrated by a man who, with his wife, Whitney Duan, rose to the top levels of power and wealth—and then fell out of favor. Whitney had been disappeared four years before, but this book led to her dramatic reemergence....

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    • The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun
    • By: Brother Yun
    • Narrated by: Cristofer Jean
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-09
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,699 ratings
    • The dramatic autobiography of one of China's dedicated, courageous, and intensely persecuted house church leaders....

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    • A Brief Biography of Lin Yutang
    • By: Ryan Murray
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-24
    • Language: English
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    • Explore the captivating life of Lin Yutang in this concise biography. Lin, a remarkable yet often overlooked Chinese writer and philosopher, ...

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    • The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975
    • By: Alexander V. Pantsov, Steven I. Levine - translator
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 25 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • A biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century's most powerful and controversial figures, Victorious in Defeat provides a detailed portrait of a man who ranks with Stalin, Roosevelt, Hitler, Churchill, and Gandhi as leaders who shaped our world....

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    • By: Steve Tsang, Olivia Cheung
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Over the course of the last half dozen years, China's supreme leader Xi Jinping has made extraordinary changes which have profound implications not only for the Chinese people but nations throughout the world.

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    • The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
    • By: Lisa See
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 335 ratings
    • Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research, See has constructed this sweeping chronicle of her Chinese-American family....

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    • A Family's Reckoning with China
    • By: Edward Wong
    • Narrated by: Edward Wong, Will Dao
    • Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • An epic story of modern China that weaves a riveting family memoir with vital reporting by the New York Times diplomatic correspondent.

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    • The Untold Story of the Titanic's Chinese Survivors
    • By: Steven Schwankert
    • Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A moving exploration of the origins and fate of the little-known Chinese passengers aboard the Titanic—and how they survived against all odds.

    $27.34 or free with 30-day trial

    • a Cross-Cultural Journey of Self-Discovery
    • By: Angela Lee Chen
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-25
    • Language: English
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    • “It held my interest from cover to cover.” – Qat Wanders, editor and bestselling author. Poignant and wry, Standing Out is a profoundly ...

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