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    • Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
    • By: Hal Gold, Yuma Totani - foreword
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 18-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of China. Far from front lines and prying eyes, Japanese doctors and their assistants subjected human guinea pigs to gruesome medical experiments....

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    • By: Brian Inglis
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • When Britain sent troops to compel the Chinese to accept imports of opium, they opened what is argued to be one of the most disgraceful chapters in the history of the Empire. How did the situation arise? How did opium exports become so crucial to the British economy? Find out....

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    • By: Iris Chang
    • Narrated by: Anna Fields
    • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 622 ratings
    • In December 1937, in the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred.

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    • Report From a Stricken Land
    • By: Henry Kamm
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 24-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Based on his observations over three decades, Henry Kamm, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times Southeast Asia correspondent, unravels the complexities of Cambodia....

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    • Lord of Xanadu, Founder of the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor of China
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Clements
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 21-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • His grandfather was the Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of authority, Khubilai snatched the position of Great Khan, becoming the overlord of a Mongol federation that stretched from the Balkans to the Korean coast....

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    • China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
    • By: Chen Jian, Odd Arne Westad
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 14 hrs
    • Release date: 29-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped their lives during Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

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    • By: Adam Brown
    • Narrated by: Sarah Moore
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Have you ever wondered how China became the most populous and one of the most industrially active nations today? This audiobook will take you from Ancient China and imperial dynasties to communism and capitalism. Discover the rich history of this superpower....

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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: 29-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 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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    • By: C.E. Lucas Phillips
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 31-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • This is the astounding true story of the ordeal and escape of the British frigate Amethyst from Chinese Communist batteries in the Yangtze River in April 1949....

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    • The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
    • By: Tania Branigan
    • Narrated by: Tania Branigan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 31-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • More than fifty years on, the Cultural Revolution's scar runs through the heart of Chinese society, and through the souls of its citizens. Stationed in Beijing for the Guardian, Tania Branigan came to realise that this brutal and turbulent decade continues to propel and shape China to this day....

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    • By: Ezra F. Vogel
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 33 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 23-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 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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    • Dynasty, Revolution and Transformation: From the Middle Kingdom to the People's Republic
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • A Brief History of China tells of the development of a rich, complex civilization where the use of paper, writing, money, and gunpowder were widespread in ancient times and where silk, ceramics, tea, metal implements, and other products were produced and exported around the globe....

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    • By: Steven W. Mosher
    • Narrated by: Al Kessel
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 27-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The signs are everywhere. China unilaterally claims the entire South China Sea as sovereign territory, then builds artificial islands to bolster its claim....

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    • The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
    • By: Martin Jacques
    • Narrated by: Scott Peterson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 17-12-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • According to even the most conservative estimates, China will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by 2027....

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    • The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China
    • By: Kevin Rudd
    • Narrated by: Kevin Rudd, Rafe Beckley
    • Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 22-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is no longer unthinkable....

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    • A Study of 'Brainwashing' in China
    • By: Robert Jay Lifton
    • Narrated by: Bobby Brill
    • Length: 19 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 26-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Informed by Erik Erikson's concept of the formation of ego identity, this book, which first appeared in 1961, is an analysis of the experiences of 15 Chinese citizens and 25 Westerners who underwent "brainwashing" by the Communist Chinese government....

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    • A Captivating Guide to a Military Conflict Primarily Waged Between China and Japan and the Rape of Nanking
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Many people in the West look upon the Second Sino-Japanese War, which took place in the 1930s and 1940s, as a sort of sideshow to the larger Second World War, but there is no separating the two....

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    • The Belt and Road Initiative and Its Impact on the World
    • By: Daniel Wagner
    • Narrated by: Raymond S. Gray
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is the most ambitious infrastructure project ever undertaken, and will ultimately result in more than one trillion dollars of investment by the time it is finished....

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    • The Rise of a Superpower
    • By: Frank Dikötter
    • Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
    • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine comes a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of Chairman Mao....

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