Modern China

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Rana Mitter
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 30-11-2021
    • Language: English
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    • This Very Short Introduction audiobook offers the listener an entry to understanding the world's most populous nation, giving an integrated picture of modern Chinese society, culture, economy, politics, and art....

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    • A Captivating Guide to Modern Chinese History
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Let’s take a look at the past 120 years of Chinese history, from the country’s start as a backward, struggling empire in the late 19th century to a totalitarian communist superpower....

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    • An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today's China
    • By: Desmond Shum
    • Narrated by: Tim Chiou
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • In the headline-making and best-selling tradition of Bill Browder’s Red Notice comes a riveting memoir from a man who rose within the ranks of China’s ultra-rich only to see his business partner-wife mysteriously vanish....

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    • Nationalists vs. Communists and the Birth of Modern China (1927–1950) (Savage Civil Wars of the 20th Century: Revolutions, Resistance, and the Fight for Power)
    • By: Daniel Wrinn
    • Narrated by: Daniel Wrinn
    • Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
    • Release date: 18-10-2024
    • Language: English
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    • The Chinese Civil War was a decades-long struggle between the Nationalists and Communists that reshaped China and reverberated across the globe.

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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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    • The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
    • By: Jing Tsu
    • Narrated by: Jing Tsu
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 18-01-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu shows that China's most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: to make the formidable Chinese language - a 2,200-year-old writing system that was daunting to natives and foreigners alike - accessible to a globalised digital world....

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    • From the Ancient Dynasties to a Modern Superpower: A Retelling for Our Times
    • By: Linda Jaivin
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 30-11-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Chinese history is nothing if not messy. Heroes are also villains; prosperity mingles with violence; cultural vibrancy coexists with censorship and repression. Jaivin distills this vast history into a sparkling narrative, from mythical origins to the COVID-19 pandemic....

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    • Escape from China's Modern-Day Concentration Camps
    • By: Sayragul Sauytbay, Alexandra Cavelius
    • Narrated by: Xifeng Brooks
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 21-06-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Born in China’s northwestern province, Sayragul Sauytbay trained as a doctor before being appointed a senior civil servant. But her life was upended when the Chinese authorities incarcerated her. Her crime? Being Kazakh, one of China’s ethnic minorities....

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    • Art, Resistance, and the Making of Modern China
    • By: Madeleine O'Dea
    • Narrated by: Caroline McLaughlin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The riveting story of China's rise from economic ruin to global giant in the four decades is illuminated by another, equally fascinating, narrative beneath its surface....

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    • Love and Loss in Modern China
    • By: Xinran Xue
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • At the start of the 20th century in China, the Hans were married in an elaborate ceremony before they were even born....

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    • My Story of China and America
    • By: Weijian Shan, Janet Yellen - foreword
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 17-04-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Weijian Shan's Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books on China of our time, one with the potential to re-shape how Americans view China, and how the Chinese view life in America....

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    • A Missionary Odyssey in Modern China
    • By: Ji Li
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Li
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Through Caubriere's experience, At the Frontier of God's Empire examines Chinese people at social and cultural margins during this period....

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    • a gripping and atmospheric crime thriller set in modern China
    • By: Brian Klingborg
    • Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
    • Series: Inspector Lu Fei Mystery, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-2021
    • Language: English
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    • In a remote Chinese town - where the theft of a few chickens counts as a major crime - a young woman is found brutally murdered...with her heart, lungs and liver removed....

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    • China's History and Modern Foreign Relations
    • By: Christopher Ford
    • Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • With an economy and population that dwarf most industrialized nations, China is emerging as a 21st century global superpower....

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    • A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture
    • By: Annelise Heinz
    • Narrated by: Rachel Botchan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 21-06-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture illustrates how the spaces between tiles and the moments between games have fostered distinct social cultures in the United States....

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    • A Bilingual Chinese-English Modern Edition of China's Greatest Classic: Sun Tzu's The Art of War
    • By: Ling Ling, Huw Robson, Sun Tzu
    • Narrated by: Huw Robson, LingLing
    • Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Unveil the secrets of the Chinese language and culture as you embark on a captivating journey with Sun Tzu's renowned masterpiece, The Art of War for Language Learners.

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