Historical Fiction Asia

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    • 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 2,532 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.

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    • 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 6,137 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....

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    • 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 3,013 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....

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    • 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 1,565 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....

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    • 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 1,375 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....

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    • 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 152 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....

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    • 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 4,191 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....

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    • 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....

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    • 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....

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    • By: Heather B. Moore
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,533 ratings
    • When Donaldina Cameron arrives at the Occidental Mission Home for Girls in 1895, she intends to teach sewing skills to young Chinese women immigrants, but, within days, she discovers that the job is much more complicated than perfect stitches and even hems....

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    • Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
    • By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
    • Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11,558 ratings
    • As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science....

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    • 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 6,350 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....

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    • 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....

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    • 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 3,705 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....

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    • The Asian Saga, Book 1.1
    • By: James Clavell
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Series: The Asian Saga
    • Length: 24 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,774 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....

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    • 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 662 ratings
    • Best-selling author Alan Brennert blends history and fiction to showcase Hawaii's dynamic past in this captivating novel....

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    • 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 151 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....

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    • 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....

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    • The Epic Novel of the Birth of Modern Japan
    • By: James Clavell
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Series: The Asian Saga, Book 3
    • Length: 50 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,733 ratings
    • The dynamic epic novel of political upheaval and societal change in late 1800s Japan....

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