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    • By: Iris Chang
    • Narrated by: Anna Fields
    • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,491 ratings
    • In December 1937, in the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred.....

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    • China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
    • By: Michael Pillsbury
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,523 ratings
    • One of the US government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise - and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us....

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    • The Unknown Story
    • By: Jung Chang, Jon Halliday
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 29 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,594 ratings
    • The most authoritative biography of Mao ever written....

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    • The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
    • By: Stephen R. Platt
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 850 ratings
    • As one of the most potent turning points in the country's modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today's China seeks to put behind it....

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    • The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
    • By: Frank Dikötter
    • Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
    • Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake the West in less than fifteen years. It led to one of the world's greatest catastrophes.

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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 1,080 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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    • By: Henry Kissinger
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Hormann
    • Length: 20 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,385 ratings
    • In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book length to a country he has known intimately for decades and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape....

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    • An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
    • By: Patrick Radden Keefe
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 348 ratings
    • A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss....

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    • The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future
    • By: Chun Han Wong
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • From one of the most admired reporters covering China today comes a vital new account of the life and political vision of Xi Jinping, the authoritarian leader of the People’s Republic whose hard-edged tactics have set the rising superpower on a collision with Western liberal democracies.

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    • The Year China Discovered America
    • By: Gavin Menzies
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 370 ratings
    • On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China....

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    • The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
    • By: Sean McMeekin
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Award-winning historian Sean McMeekin investigates the evolution of Communism from a seductive ideal of a classless society into the ruling doctrine of tyrannical regimes.

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    • By: Ezra F. Vogel
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 33 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 330 ratings
    • Once described by Mao Zedong as a "needle inside a ball of cotton", Deng was the pragmatic yet disciplined driving force behind China's radical transformation in the late 20th century....

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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 1,963 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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    • The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China
    • By: Kevin Rudd
    • Narrated by: Kevin Rudd, Rafe Beckley
    • Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 264 ratings
    • A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is no longer unthinkable....

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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 1,041 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 Horse and the Rise of Empires
    • By: David Chaffetz
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a slight, shy animal, hunted for food. Domesticating the horse allowed early humans to settle the vast Eurasian steppe....

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    • The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
    • By: Jonathan Kaufman
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 617 ratings
    • An epic multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as 20th-century China surged into the modern era, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist....

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    • Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
    • By: Hal Gold, Yuma Totani - foreword
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 267 ratings
    • Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of China. Far from front lines and prying eyes, Japanese doctors and their assistants subjected human guinea pigs to gruesome medical experiments....

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    • A Study of 'Brainwashing' in China
    • By: Robert Jay Lifton
    • Narrated by: Bobby Brill
    • Length: 19 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Informed by Erik Erikson's concept of the formation of ego identity, this book, which first appeared in 1961, is an analysis of the experiences of 15 Chinese citizens and 25 Westerners who underwent "brainwashing" by the Communist Chinese government....

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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 14 ratings
    • An epic narrative that tells the story of modern China by braiding an intimate family memoir with contemporary reporting by a New York Times diplomatic correspondent and former Beijing bureau chief....

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