Asia Culture

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    • Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
    • By: Michael Dylan Foster
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 25-12-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Drawing on years of research in Japan, Michael Dylan Foster unpacks the history and cultural context of yokai, tracing their roots, interpreting their meanings, and introducing people who have hunted them through the ages....

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    • A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
    • By: Michael Booth
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 14-04-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other....

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    • Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture
    • By: Roger J. Davies, Osamu Ikeno
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Listeners of this book will gain a clear understanding of what makes the Japanese, and their society, tick....

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    • Isolation, War, Despotism and Revival: The Fascinating Story of a Resilient But Divided People
    • By: Michael J. Seth
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Korea was one of the last countries in Asia to be visited by Westerners, and its borders have remained largely unchanged since it was unified in the seventh century. Though it is one of the world's oldest and most ethnically homogeneous states, Korea was not born in a vacuum....

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    • The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
    • By: Pamela S. Turner
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 17-08-2016
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Minamoto Yoshitsune should not have been a samurai. This epic warrior tale may sound like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai Japanese history....

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    • Patterns of Japanese Culture
    • By: Ruth Benedict
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 08-02-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Essential for anyone interested in Japanese culture, this unsurpassed masterwork opens an intriguing window on Japan. The World War II-era study by the cultural anthropologist Ruth Benedict paints an illuminating contrast between the people of Japan and those of the United States....

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    • By: Francesco D'Adamo
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 24-07-2006
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Iqbal, a 13-year-old boy, fights for children's liberation....

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    • Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the “Riches of the East”
    • By: Stewart Gordon
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 22-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Author Stewart Gordon has fashioned a fascinating and unique look at Asia from AD 700 to 1500, a time when Asia was the world, by describing the personal journeys of Asia's many travelers....

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    • By: Disney Press
    • Narrated by: Samantha Tan
    • Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Walt Disney Animation Studios’ fantasy-action-adventure, Raya and the Last Dragon, introduces Raya, a lone warrior from the fantasy kingdom of Kumandra who teams up with a crew of misfits in her quest to find the last dragon and bring light and unity back to their world....

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    • The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
    • By: Culture Smart!
    • Narrated by: Charles Armstrong, Anna Bentinck, Peter Noble
    • Length: 18 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-2023
    • Language: English
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    • This collection of Culture Smart guidebooks introduces listeners to China, Japan, and India. Each guidebook includes concise chapters on the local customs, traditions, and values of the country's inhabitants and, crucially, the key historical and cultural events that have shaped them....

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    • A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
    • By: Ji-li Jiang
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 26-02-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has brains, friends, and a bright future. Then Mao Zedong launches China’s infamous Cultural Revolution....

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    • World Passport
    • By: Cheryl Kim
    • Narrated by: uncredited
    • Length: 21 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-2024
    • Language: English
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    • What is it like to live in or visit Japan? What makes Japan’s culture unique? Explore the geography, traditions, and daily lives of the Japanese people.

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    • By: Katie Tsang, Kevin Tsang
    • Narrated by: Kevin Shen
    • Series: Dragon Realm, Book 2
    • Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 29-04-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Billy Chan and his friends are not having a very relaxing summer. Their friend Dylan has been kidnapped by the evil Dragon of Death, and it’s up to them to travel through time, back to the dangerous Dragon Realm in order to save him....

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    • World Passport
    • By: Nancy Dickmann
    • Narrated by: uncredited
    • Length: 18 mins
    • Release date: 26-04-2024
    • Language: English
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    • What is it like to live in or visit Sri Lanka? What makes Sri Lanka’s culture unique? Explore the geography, traditions, and daily lives of Sri Lankan people.

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    • By: Katie Tsang, Kevin Tsang
    • Narrated by: Kevin Shen
    • Series: Dragon Realm, Book 3
    • Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In an alternate reality, 5,000 years in the future, the evil Dragon of Death has become ruler of Dragon City. Humans now live to serve the dragon population, and it’s no different for Billy Chan and his friends....

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    • By: Friedrich Max Müller
    • Narrated by: Siddhanta Pinto
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 21-05-2024
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A collection of the lectures of Max Muller, India: What it Can Teach Us portrays India, especially Vedic India, as an epitome of virtue and morality, whose glory is equal to classical Greek and Roman thought.

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    • By: Grace Lin
    • Narrated by: Janet Song
    • Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 16-06-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In the valley of Fruitless mountain, a young girl named Minli lives in a ramshackle hut with her parents. In the evenings, her father regales her with old folktales of the Jade Dragon and the Old Man on the Moon, who knows the answers to all of life's questions....

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