China Political History

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    • Facing History
    • By: Ezra F. Vogel
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 22 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 14-01-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 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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    • 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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    • By: China Miéville
    • Narrated by: China Miéville
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 20-05-2022
    • Language: English
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    • In 1848, The Communist Manifesto was published by two émigrés from Germany. This is a strikingly imaginative take on Marx and what his most haunting book has to say to us today....

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    • Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong
    • By: Louisa Lim
    • Narrated by: Louisa Lim
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • An award-winning journalist takes to the protest-riven streets of Hong Kong to write this startling landmark account of the island city's complex past and precarious future....

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    • By: China Miéville
    • Narrated by: China Miéville
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 17-12-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In 1848, THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO was published by two émigrés from Germany. Marx and Engels' apocalyptic vision of an insatiable system that penetrates every corner of the world reduces every relationship to that of profit, and burst asunder the old forms of production and of politics....

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    • How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa
    • By: Howard W. French
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 20-05-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • An exciting, hugely revealing account of China’s burgeoning presence in Africa - a developing empire already shaping, and reshaping, the future of millions of people....

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    • The Story of the Russian Revolution
    • By: China Mieville
    • Narrated by: John Banks
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • The renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Mieville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution....

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    • Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China
    • By: Robert D. Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 22-08-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Robert D. Kaplan explores Greater Middle East through reporting and travel writing to reveal deeper truths about the impacts of history on the present and how the requirements of stability over anarchy are often in conflict with the ideals of democratic governance.

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    • How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
    • By: Yasheng Huang PhD
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
    • Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 19-12-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Chinese society has been shaped by the interplay of the EAST—exams, autocracy, stability, and technology—from ancient times through the present. Chinese autocracies have developed exceptional tools for homogenizing ideas, norms, and practices. But this uniformity came with a huge downside....

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    • The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
    • By: Jung Chang
    • Narrated by: Pik-sen Lim
    • Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • At the age of 16, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the emperor’s numerous concubines....

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    • By: Andrew Kwong
    • Narrated by: Jason Chong
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 18-05-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • Winner of the 2021 Michael Crouch Award, debut category of the National Biography Award: From famine to freedom, how a young boy fled Chairman Mao's China to a new life in Australia....

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    • The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia
    • By: James Bradley
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 21-04-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • The China Mirage explores a difficult century that defines US-Chinese relations to this day....

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    • Democracy Versus Autocracy from the Ancient World to the U.S. and China
    • By: Matthew Kroenig
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 24-11-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Matthew Kroenig advances the riveting argument that democracies tend to excel in great power rivalries. He contends that democracies actually have unique economic, diplomatic, and military advantages in long-run geopolitical competitions....

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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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    • 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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    • A Global History
    • By: Julia Lovell
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 19-11-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao’s revolution in favour of authoritarian capitalism....

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    • A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
    • By: Tahir Hamut Izgil, Joshua L. Freeman
    • Narrated by: Greg Watanabe
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide, Waiting to Be Arrested at Night is the story of the political, social, and cultural destruction of Tahir Hamut Izgil's homeland....

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    • Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America
    • By: Jim Sciutto
    • Narrated by: Jim Sciutto
    • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • CNN’s chief national security correspondent reveals the invisible fronts of 21st-century warfare and identifies the ongoing battles being waged - often without the public’s full knowledge - from disinformation campaigns to advanced satellite weaponry....

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