Modern China

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    • The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
    • By: Jung Chang
    • Narrated by: Jolene Kim
    • Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 442 ratings
    • Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age....

    Regular price: $22.50

    • From the Ancient Dynasties to a Modern Superpower: A Retelling for Our Times
    • By: Linda Jaivin
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • From kung-fu to tofu, tea to trade routes, sages to silk, China has influenced cuisine, commerce, military strategy, aesthetics, and philosophy across the world for thousands of years....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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 193 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....

    Regular price: $30.09

    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Rana Mitter
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • This Very Short Introduction audiobook offers the listener an entry to understanding the world's most populous nation, giving an integrated picture of modern Chinese society, culture, economy, politics, and art....

    Regular price: $11.17

    • What Everyone Needs to Know®
    • By: Arthur R. Kroeber
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 247 ratings
    • China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know is a concise introduction to the most astonishing economic growth story of the last three decades. In the 1980s, China was an impoverished backwater. Today it is the world's second biggest economy....

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    • How to Understand Chinese Ideology to Improve Foreign Policy and Relations with China
    • By: Eric Engle, Mao Zedong
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 18 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The Mao Zedong Reader: How to Understand Chinese Ideology to Improve Foreign Policy and Relations with China Edited by Eric Engle For the first ...

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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 557 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....

    Regular price: $33.75

    • A Captivating Guide to Modern Chinese History
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-23
    • Language: English
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    • Let’s take a look at the past 120 years of Chinese history, from the country’s start as a backward, struggling empire in the late 19th century to a totalitarian communist superpower....

    Regular price: $14.95

    • By: Jon Lee Junior
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-25
    • Language: English
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    • A Coward in Modern China is a travel comedy, crime caper and adventure - based on the escapades of bogus professor Robert Runworth. Its first line ...

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    • Fragile Superpower
    • By: Susan L. Shirk
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Shirk argues that rising powers such as China tend to provoke wars in large part because other countries mishandle them. Unless we understand China's brittle internal politics and the fears that motivate its leaders, we face the very real possibility of avoidable conflict with China....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture
    • By: Annelise Heinz
    • Narrated by: Rachel Botchan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture illustrates how the spaces between tiles and the moments between games have fostered distinct social cultures in the United States....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • Escape from China's Modern-Day Concentration Camps
    • By: Sayragul Sauytbay, Alexandra Cavelius
    • Narrated by: Xifeng Brooks
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • Born in China’s northwestern province, Sayragul Sauytbay trained as a doctor before being appointed a senior civil servant. But her life was upended when the Chinese authorities incarcerated her. Her crime? Being Kazakh, one of China’s ethnic minorities....

    Regular price: $15.36

    • The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
    • By: Jing Tsu
    • Narrated by: Jing Tsu
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind....

    Regular price: $18.00

    • Dragon Rising
    • By: Max Alexander
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The second American Civil War is over, and the country has united again, but not without huge loss of life. The United States Army is low on ...

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    • By: Denis Miller
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-25
    • Language: English
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    • China Scoop is a compelling thriller based on the explosive truth behind the now widely accepted belief that the policies of the late Chairman Mao ...

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    • By: Denis Miller
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-25
    • Language: English
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    • Second edition of the riveting thriller, centring on the explosive truth behind the now widely accepted belief that the policies of the late ...

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    • China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
    • By: Kai-Fu Lee
    • Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,389 ratings
    • In AI Superpowers, Kai-fu Lee argues powerfully that because of these unprecedented developments in AI, dramatic changes will be happening much sooner than many of us expected....

    Regular price: $20.00

    • Belt and Road, BRICS, and the Revival of China’s Tributary System A Historical Comparison with Rome and Its Modern Implications
    • By: Eric Engle
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-25
    • Language: English
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    • Decode the Secrets of China's Global Strategy —Before It's Too Late!China’s growing influence is reshaping global power dynamics—are you ...

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    • My Story of China and America
    • By: Weijian Shan, Janet Yellen - foreword
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • Weijian Shan's Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books on China of our time, one with the potential to re-shape how Americans view China, and how the Chinese view life in America....

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