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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: 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 620 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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    • 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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    • Facing History
    • By: Ezra F. Vogel
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 22 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 14-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 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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    • 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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    • Kublai Khan and the Making of China
    • By: Jack Weatherford
    • Narrated by: Mark Elstob
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 26-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Genghis Khan built a formidable land empire, but he never crossed the sea. Yet by the time his grandson Kublai Khan had defeated the last vestiges of the Song empire and established the Yuan dynasty in 1279, the Mongols controlled the most powerful navy in the world.

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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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    • The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
    • By: Helen Zia
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 23-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • The dramatic real-life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revolution....

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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 9 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Rana Mitter
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 30-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • Hong Kong and the World's Largest Dictatorship
    • By: Stephen Vines
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Li
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 17-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Defying the Dragon tells a remarkable story of audacity—of how the people of Hong Kong challenged the PRC's authority, just as its president reached the height of his powers. Vividly describing the uprising from street level, Vines explains how and why it unfolded....

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    • Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century
    • By: Sebastian Strangio
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 29-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • A timely look at the impact of China's booming emergence on the countries of Southeast Asia....

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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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    • A Life in Two Worlds
    • By: Ping Fu, MeiMei Fox
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 31-12-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Ping Fu knows what it’s like to be a child soldier, a factory worker, and a political prisoner. To be beaten and raped for the crime of being born into a well-educated family.....

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