East Asia

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    • By: Thomas Keneally
    • Narrated by: Peter Byrne
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 28-06-2011
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This is the story of three terrible famines....

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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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    • A Captivating Guide to the History of China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Edwin Andrews
    • Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • History of East Asia includes four captivating books in one audiobook and covers the history of China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, covering many historically significant events and wars, dynasties, foreign invasions, and much more....

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    • By: Ezra F. Vogel
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 33 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 23-03-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Once described by Mao Zedong as a "needle inside a ball of cotton", Deng was the pragmatic yet disciplined driving force behind China's radical transformation in the late 20th century....

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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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    • War in the Far East Series, Book 1
    • By: Peter Harmsen
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Series: War in the Far East, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 24-08-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Storm Clouds over the Pacific begins the story long before Pearl Harbor, showing how the war can only be understood if ancient hatreds and long-standing geopolitics are taken into account....

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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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    • The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
    • By: Steve Coll
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 28 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Steve Coll tells the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11....

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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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    • 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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    • The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
    • By: William Dalrymple
    • Narrated by: Sid Sagar
    • Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 236 ratings
    • The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company....

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    • By: Edward Said
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 31-12-2010
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • This landmark book, first published in 1978, remains one of the most influential books in the Social Sciences, particularly Ethnic Studies and Postcolonialism....

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    • A Modern History
    • By: Abbas Amanat
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 41 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of years....

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    • The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
    • By: Steve Coll
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 26 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 27-10-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • The explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan....

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    • By: Colin Thubron
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 15-08-2007
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Colin Thubron undertakes a journey along the greatest land route on earth: the Silk Road....

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    • The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East
    • By: James Holland
    • Narrated by: Al Murray
    • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 30-04-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • In February 1944, a rag-tag collection of clerks, drivers, doctors, muleteers and other base troops, stiffened by a few dogged Yorkshiremen and a handful of tank crews, managed to hold out against some of the finest infantry in the Japanese Army....

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    • The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia
    • By: Jürgen Osterhammel, Robert Savage - translator
    • Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
    • Length: 25 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • During the long 18th century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. Author Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great civilizations of the East....

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    • A History of Western Fascination with the East
    • By: Christopher Harding
    • Narrated by: Christopher Harding
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 25-01-2024
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Christopher Harding's captivating gallery of geniuses, adventurers and con-men celebrates Asia's impact on the West in all its variety.....

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    • A Cultural and Political History
    • By: Thomas Barfield
    • Narrated by: Robin Bloodworth
    • Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 21-09-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the 16th century to the Taliban resurgence today....

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    • Dispatches from a Precarious State
    • By: Declan Walsh
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 16-02-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times's most distinguished international correspondents. His electrifying portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this wondrous and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals....

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