Historical Fiction Asia

Product List
    • By: Lisa See
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Lim, Justin Chien
    • Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,574 ratings
    • Inspired by the true story of a woman physician in 15th-century China, Lady Tan’s Circle of Women is a captivating story of women helping other women and a triumphant reimagining of the life of a woman who was remarkable in the Ming dynasty and would be considered remarkable today.

    Regular price: $22.49

    • By: Colin Falconer
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Series: Epic Adventure
    • Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 154 ratings
    • From the Storehouse of Winds to the Palace of Myriad Tranquillities, from the Pamirs and Hindu Kush to the legendary Xanadu and the dazzling court of Khubilai Khan, this is romance and adventure on a breathtaking scale....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • A Novel
    • By: Yangsze Choo
    • Narrated by: Yangsze Choo
    • Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,017 ratings
    • A startlingly original voice makes her literary debut with this wondrous coming-of-age story infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue, adventure, and fascinating, dreamlike twists....

    Regular price: $24.29

    • A Novel
    • By: Lisa See
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
    • Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,175 ratings
    • Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who begin working with their village’s all-female diving collective. As the girls take up positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility but also danger....

    Regular price: $22.49

    • By: Kim Man-jung, Heinz Insu Fenkl - translator
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Korea's most prized literary masterpiece about a Buddhist journey questioning the illusions of human life is presented in a new translation. The Nine Cloud Dream is an unforgettable tale that explores the meaning of a good life and the virtue of living simply with mindfulness....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • By: John Allyn, Stephen Turnbull - foreword
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 729 ratings
    • This is the definitive, fascinating account of this unforgettable tale of a band of samurai who defied the Emperor to avenge the disgrace and death of their master....

    Regular price: $18.03

    • By: Julie Lee
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Twelve-year-old Sora and her family live under an iron set of rules: No travel without a permit. No criticism of the government. No absences from Communist meetings. Wear red. Hang pictures of the Great Leader. Don't trust your neighbors. Don't speak your mind. You are being watched....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • By: Eugenia Kim
    • Narrated by: Janet Song
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • Told through the alternating perspectives of the distanced sisters, and inspired by a true story, The Kinship of Secrets explores the cruelty of war, the power of hope, and what it means to be a sister....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • By: Soseki Natsume, Aiko Ito - translator, Graeme Wilson - translator
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 21 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 152 ratings
    • I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • A Novel
    • By: Nina Revoyr
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In 1960s LA, a Japanese American former silent-film star investigates a mystery from his dark past in this novel by the author of Southland....

    Regular price: $24.95

    • By: Nghi Vo
    • Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 158 ratings
    • Luli Wei is beautiful, talented, and desperate to be a star. Coming of age in pre-Code Hollywood, she knows how dangerous the movie business is and how limited the roles are for a Chinese American girl from Hungarian Hill—but she doesn't care. She’d rather play a monster than a maid....

    Regular price: $14.99

    • By: Kelli Estes
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,357 ratings
    • The smallest items can hold centuries of secrets. Inara Erickson is exploring her deceased aunt's island estate when she finds an elaborately stitched piece of fabric hidden in the house....

    Regular price: $19.74

    • A Novel
    • By: Laila Ibrahim
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,711 ratings
    • From the bestselling author of Yellow Crocus comes a heart-wrenching story about finding strength in a new world. Southern China, 1923. Desperate to secure her future, Mei Ling’s parents arrange a marriage to a widower in California....

    Regular price: $20.00

    • By: Alan Brennert
    • Narrated by: Ali Ahn
    • Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 665 ratings
    • Best-selling author Alan Brennert blends history and fiction to showcase Hawaii's dynamic past in this captivating novel....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • The Epic Novel of Modern Hong Kong: The Asian Saga, Book 5
    • By: James Clavell
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Series: The Asian Saga, Book 5
    • Length: 54 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,383 ratings
    • The epic novel of espionage, betrayal and turbulence in 1960s Hong Kong by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell....

    Regular price: $21.92

    • The Epic Novel of the Founding of Hong Kong: The Asian Saga, Book 2
    • By: James Clavell
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Series: The Asian Saga, Book 2
    • Length: 32 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,198 ratings
    • The sweeping epic novel of the founding of Hong Kong, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell....

    Regular price: $22.10

    • The Asian Saga, Book 1.2
    • By: James Clavell
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Series: The Asian Saga
    • Length: 29 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,596 ratings
    • After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen—Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin....

    Regular price: $20.97

    • Stories
    • By: Karen Tei Yamashita
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 12-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In these buoyant and inventive stories, Karen Tei Yamashita transfers classic tales across boundaries and questions what an inheritance - familial, cultural, emotional, artistic - really means....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • By: Linda Sue Park
    • Narrated by: Norm Lee, Jennifer Ikeda
    • Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 205 ratings
    • Korean Sun-hee and her brother, Tae-yul, must study Japanese language and culture in school. The symbols of their beloved Korea can never be displayed or mentioned in public....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • A Novel
    • By: Jenny Tinghui Zhang
    • Narrated by: Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Katharine Chin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 248 ratings
    • Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and forced across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined....

    Regular price: $20.24