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  • Japan's Infamous Unit 731 cover art

    • Japan's Infamous Unit 731

    • 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: 18-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 103 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 Brief History of Khubilai Khan

    • Lord of Xanadu, Founder of the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor of China
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Clements
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 21-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • His grandfather was the Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of authority, Khubilai snatched the position of Great Khan, becoming the overlord of a Mongol federation that stretched from the Balkans to the Korean coast....

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    • The Rape of Nanking

    • By: Iris Chang
    • Narrated by: Anna Fields
    • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 620 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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    • The Opium War

    • By: Brian Inglis
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings

    • When Britain sent troops to compel the Chinese to accept imports of opium, they opened what is argued to be one of the most disgraceful chapters in the history of the Empire. How did the situation arise? How did opium exports become so crucial to the British economy? Find out....

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    • The Great Transformation

    • China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
    • By: Chen Jian, Odd Arne Westad
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 14 hrs
    • Release date: 29-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped their lives during Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

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    • China After Mao

    • The Rise of a Superpower
    • By: Frank Dikötter
    • Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
    • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

    • From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine comes a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of Chairman Mao....

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  • China: A History of China and East Asia 3rd Edition cover art

    • China: A History of China and East Asia 3rd Edition

    • By: Adam Brown
    • Narrated by: Sarah Moore
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Have you ever wondered how China became the most populous and one of the most industrially active nations today? This audiobook will take you from Ancient China and imperial dynasties to communism and capitalism. Discover the rich history of this superpower....

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    • China and Japan

    • Facing History
    • By: Ezra F. Vogel
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 22 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 14-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings

    • China and Japan have cultural and political connections that stretch back 1,500 years. But today, their relationship is strained. Ezra Vogel's China and Japan examines key turning points in Sino-Japanese history....

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  • Modern China (2nd Edition) cover art

    • Modern China (2nd Edition)

    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Rana Mitter
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 30-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 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....

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    • Escape of the Amethyst

    • By: C.E. Lucas Phillips
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 31-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • This is the astounding true story of the ordeal and escape of the British frigate Amethyst from Chinese Communist batteries in the Yangtze River in April 1949....

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  • Emperor of the Seas cover art

    • Emperor of the Seas

    • Kublai Khan and the Making of China
    • By: Jack Weatherford
    • Narrated by: Mark Elstob
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 26-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Genghis Khan built a formidable land empire, but he never crossed the sea. Yet by the time his grandson Kublai Khan had defeated the last vestiges of the Song empire and established the Yuan dynasty in 1279, the Mongols controlled the most powerful navy in the world.

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  • Second Sino-Japanese War cover art

    • Second Sino-Japanese War

    • A Captivating Guide to a Military Conflict Primarily Waged Between China and Japan and the Rape of Nanking
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Many people in the West look upon the Second Sino-Japanese War, which took place in the 1930s and 1940s, as a sort of sideshow to the larger Second World War, but there is no separating the two....

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    • Shanghai 1937

    • Stalingrad on the Yangtze
    • By: Peter Harmsen
    • Narrated by: George Backman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 23-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • This deeply researched book describes one of the great forgotten battles of the 20th century....

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    • Last Boat Out of Shanghai

    • The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
    • By: Helen Zia
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 23-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings

    • The dramatic real-life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revolution....

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    • 1434

    • The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
    • By: Gavin Menzies
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 28-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world....

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  • How China Escaped the Poverty Trap cover art

    • How China Escaped the Poverty Trap

    • By: Yuen Yuen Ang
    • Narrated by: Catherine Ho
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 22-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • How can poor and weak societies escape poverty traps? Political economists have traditionally offered three answers. Yuen Yuen Ang rejects all three schools of thought and their underlying assumptions....

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    • Cambodia

    • Report From a Stricken Land
    • By: Henry Kamm
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 24-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Based on his observations over three decades, Henry Kamm, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times Southeast Asia correspondent, unravels the complexities of Cambodia....

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    • Marutas of Unit 731

    • Human Experimentation of the Forgotten Asian Auschwitz
    • By: Jenny Chan
    • Narrated by: Michelle Morgan
    • Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • Euphemistically labeled as the "Water Supply and Prophylaxis Administration" and "HippoEpizootic Administration" of the Imperial Japanese Army, Unit 731 and Unit 100, as well as their subsidiary branches, performed human experimentation on innocents under the leadership of Dr. Shiro....

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  • Mythology cover art

    • Mythology

    • Fascinating Chinese Myths, Legends, Folklore, and History
    • By: Sally Stephens
    • Narrated by: Kenneth Ellison
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 14-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings

    • Count yourself lucky (in a Chinese kind of way), because you just bumped into a book of three documents that have been combined to give you the greatest value for your money....

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    • The Avoidable War

    • 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: 22-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings

    • A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is no longer unthinkable....

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