China Economic History

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    • The Ancient World Economy and the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia and Han China
    • By: Raoul McLaughlin
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 18-09-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes investigates the trade routes between Rome and the powerful empires of inner Asia, including the Parthian regime which ruled ancient Persia (Iran)....

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    • What Everyone Needs to Know®
    • By: Arthur R. Kroeber
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 24-07-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 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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    • By: Yuen Yuen Ang
    • Narrated by: Catherine Ho
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 22-11-2022
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • Xi Jinping and His New China
    • By: Michael Sheridan
    • Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 29-08-2024
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Xi Jinping rules over 1.4 billion people and the second biggest economy on earth. The book, based on new sources, leads the listener from the poor, isolated China of the 1950s to the modern economic and military juggernaut of today....

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    • How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept
    • By: Robert Spalding
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 126 ratings
    • In Stealth War, retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Spalding reveals China's motives and secret attacks on the West....

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    • Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy
    • By: George Magnus
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 23-10-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Will China rule the world, or will its dream turn into a nightmare? George Magnus, the trusted economic commentator on China, provides a penetrating account of the threats to China's continued rise....

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    • The Struggle over the South China Sea and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion
    • By: Humphrey Hawksley
    • Narrated by: Rufus Wright
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Few territories are as hotly contested as the western Pacific Ocean. Across the 1.5 million square mile expanse of the East and South China Sea, six countries lay overlapping claims that date back centuries....

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    • An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail
    • By: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: A. T. Chandler
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-2013
    • Language: English
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    • Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships....

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    • The Bubble That Never Pops
    • By: Thomas Orlik
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 16-02-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The Chinese economy appears destined for failure, the financial bubble forever in peril of popping, the real estate sector doomed to collapse, the factories fated for bankruptcy....

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    • By: Yu Hua, Allan H. Barr - translator
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 30-04-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • China in Ten Words is a refreshingly candid vision of the “Chinese miracle” and all its consequences, from the singularly invaluable perspective of a writer living in China today....

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    • By: Paul S. Ropp
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 09-10-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In this fascinating compact history of Chinese life, ranging from the origins of civilization in China to the beginning of the 21st century, historian Paul Ropp combines vivid story-telling with astute analysis to shed light on some of the larger questions of Chinese history.....

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    • The Worker, the Factory, and the Future of the World
    • By: Dexter Roberts
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 31-07-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The untold story of how restrictive policies are preventing China from becoming the world's largest economy....

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    • Fragile Superpower
    • By: Susan L. Shirk
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 23-08-2022
    • Language: English
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    • 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....

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    • The Market Reform Debate
    • By: Isabella M. Weber
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 14-03-2023
    • Language: English
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    • China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitated the country's rise without leading to its wholesale assimilation to global neoliberalism. This book uncovers the fierce contest about economic reforms that shaped China's path....

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    • America, China, and the Struggle for Global Leadership
    • By: Clyde Prestowitz
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 26-01-2021
    • Language: English
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    • An authority on Asia and globalization identifies the challenges China's growing power poses and how it must be confronted....

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    • The Real Story of China in Africa
    • By: Deborah Brautigam
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 25-12-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In the last few years, China's aid program has leapt out of the shadows. This well-timed book, by one of the world's leading experts, provides the first comprehensive account of China's aid and economic cooperation overseas....

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    • A New Monetary History of China
    • By: Jin Xu
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 22-04-2021
    • Language: English
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    • This revelatory account of the ways silver shaped Chinese history shows how an obsession with “white metal” held China back from financial modernization....

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    • How China's Resource Quest Is Changing the World
    • By: Elizabeth Economy, Michael Levi
    • Narrated by: Emily Zeller
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-2014
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In By All Means Necessary, Elizabeth C. Economy and Michael Levi explore the unrivaled expansion of the Chinese economy and the global effects of its meteoric growth....

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    • How the Aspirations of Government, Business, and People Are Driving the Greatest Transformation in History
    • By: Jonathan Krane
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 14-06-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Author Jonathan A. Krane provides an inside look at China's transformation into a global superpower and explains why the relationship between the US and China is the most critical economic relationship in the world today....

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