Asia Culture

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • A Concise History: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    • By: Rebecca E. Karl
    • Narrated by: Bobby Brill
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 24-02-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Rebecca E. Karl places the revolutionary leader's personal experiences, social visions and theory, military strategies, and developmental and foreign policies in a dynamic narrative....

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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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    • 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: 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 9 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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    • By: Colleen Sexton
    • Narrated by: Dana Fleming
    • Series: Exploring Countries
    • Length: 21 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Japan is a nation made up of many islands in the western Pacific Ocean. Over 100 million people live in this small nation of islands. Many live in the countryside, but millions live in crowded cities like Tokyo.

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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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    • By: Varsha Shah
    • Narrated by: Susheel Kumar
    • Series: Ajay and the Mumbai Sun, Book 1
    • Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Abandoned on the Mumbai railways, Ajay has grown up with nothing but a burning wish to be a journalist. Finding an abandoned printing press, he and his friends Saif, Vinod, Yasmin and Jai create their own newspaper: The Mumbai Sun....

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    • By: Saroo Brierley
    • Narrated by: Vikas Adam
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Saroo Brierley became lost on a train in India at the age of five. Not knowing the name of his family or where he was from, he survived for weeks on the streets of Kolkata, before being taken into an orphanage and adopted by a family in Australia....

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    • A Book About the People and Places of Vietnam
    • By: Theresa Alberti, Natalia Blanks
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Series: Country Abcs
    • Length: 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Wet rice paddies and steaming jungles. Noodles, lacquer art, and water puppet theater. Learn the ABCs of Vietnam and what makes this s-shaped country so fascinating....

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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
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    • 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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    • 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
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    • 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: Gabrielle Wang
    • Narrated by: Veronica Chan
    • Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 18-10-2022
    • Language: English
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    • When thirteen-year-old Celeste travels to China to visit her grandmother, she uncovers an incredible family secret. And with this secret comes danger and adventure. If Celeste is to save her family and friends, she must learn to harness her rare and powerful gift....

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