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To Overthrow the World
- The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
- By: Sean McMeekin
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
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Award-winning historian Sean McMeekin investigates the evolution of Communism from a seductive ideal of a classless society into the ruling doctrine of tyrannical regimes.
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A great round up of Sean’s other titles
- By prairie thunder on 09-20-24
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1. To Overthrow the World
- The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 09-10-24
- Language: English
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Mao's Great Famine
- The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
- By: Frank Dikötter
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake the West in less than fifteen years. It led to one of the world's greatest catastrophes.
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how it describes the horrors with anecdotes and then uses stats to show bot only did it happen but also that it was common
- By Donald on 06-28-24
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2. Mao's Great Famine
- The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 05-23-24
- Language: English
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The Hundred-Year Marathon
- China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
- By: Michael Pillsbury
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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One of the US government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise - and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us....
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Fascinating perspective.
- By Rocky Mackintosh on 01-05-17
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3. The Hundred-Year Marathon
- China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 03-24-15
- Language: English
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Mao
- The Unknown Story
- By: Jung Chang, Jon Halliday
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 29 hrs and 50 mins
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The most authoritative biography of Mao ever written....
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Fills many gaps! Very good..but!
- By Jene on 08-07-06
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4. Mao
- The Unknown Story
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 29 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 04-11-06
- Language: English
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Party of One
- The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future
- By: Chun Han Wong
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
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From one of the most admired reporters covering China today comes a vital new account of the life and political vision of Xi Jinping, the authoritarian leader of the People’s Republic whose hard-edged tactics have set the rising superpower on a collision with Western liberal democracies.
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Xi is the chairman of everything, including the press. Elite press has no place in negative China press.
- By Kindle Customer on 09-16-24
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5. Party of One
- The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 05-23-23
- Language: English
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Imperial Twilight
- The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
- By: Stephen R. Platt
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
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As one of the most potent turning points in the country's modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today's China seeks to put behind it....
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Balanced readable narrative about the Opium Wars
- By Carl A. Gallozzi on 09-05-18
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6. Imperial Twilight
- The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 05-15-18
- Language: English
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Victorious in Defeat
- The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975
- By: Alexander V. Pantsov, Steven I. Levine - translator
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 25 hrs and 42 mins
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A biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century's most powerful and controversial figures, Victorious in Defeat provides a detailed portrait of a man who ranks with Stalin, Roosevelt, Hitler, Churchill, and Gandhi as leaders who shaped our world....
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A hard story to tell
- By A reader on 08-31-24
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7. Victorious in Defeat
- The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 25 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 08-01-23
- Language: English
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On China
- By: Henry Kissinger
- Narrated by: Nicholas Hormann
- Length: 20 hrs and 10 mins
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In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book length to a country he has known intimately for decades and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape....
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Another History of China
- By Elton on 09-23-11
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8. On China
- Narrated by: Nicholas Hormann
- Length: 20 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 05-17-11
- Language: English
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Raiders, Rulers, and Traders
- The Horse and the Rise of Empires
- By: David Chaffetz
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
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No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a slight, shy animal, hunted for food. Domesticating the horse allowed early humans to settle the vast Eurasian steppe....
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9. Raiders, Rulers, and Traders
- The Horse and the Rise of Empires
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 07-30-24
- Language: English
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The Avoidable War
- 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
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A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is no longer unthinkable....
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Xi and the CCP Approve this Message
- By Andrizomai on 12-04-22
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10. The Avoidable War
- The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China
- Narrated by: Kevin Rudd, Rafe Beckley
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 03-22-22
- Language: English
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Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism
- A Study of 'Brainwashing' in China
- By: Robert Jay Lifton
- Narrated by: Bobby Brill
- Length: 19 hrs and 23 mins
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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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Landmark study on totalitarian societies
- By a reader... on 02-17-23
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11. Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism
- A Study of 'Brainwashing' in China
- Narrated by: Bobby Brill
- Length: 19 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 10-26-22
- Language: English
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The Last Kings of Shanghai
- The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
- By: Jonathan Kaufman
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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An epic multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as 20th-century China surged into the modern era, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist....
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Great story with careless flaws
- By pjdusa on 10-20-20
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12. The Last Kings of Shanghai
- The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 06-02-20
- Language: English
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The Great Transformation
- China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
- By: Chen Jian, Odd Arne Westad
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
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Historians 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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13. The Great Transformation
- China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 10-29-24
- Language: English
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1421
- The Year China Discovered America
- By: Gavin Menzies
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
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On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China....
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Would have been a good novel...
- By curtcannon on 05-08-19
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14. 1421
- The Year China Discovered America
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 01-28-14
- Language: English
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At the Edge of Empire
- A Family's Reckoning with China
- By: Edward Wong
- Narrated by: Edward Wong, Will Dao
- Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
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An epic narrative that tells the story of modern China by braiding an intimate family memoir with contemporary reporting by a New York Times diplomatic correspondent and former Beijing bureau chief....
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China’s Social and Economic Evolution Under Communism: Progress, Errors, and Implications of
- By Deborah on 09-09-24
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15. At the Edge of Empire
- A Family's Reckoning with China
- Narrated by: Edward Wong, Will Dao
- Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 06-25-24
- Language: English
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The Red Emperor
- Xi Jinping and His New China
- By: Michael Sheridan
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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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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Nothing changes in red communist fascist China
- By Johanna Spilman on 09-13-24
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16. The Red Emperor
- Xi Jinping and His New China
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 08-29-24
- Language: English
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The Struggle for Taiwan
- A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between
- By: Sulmaan Wasif Khan
- Narrated by: Austin Yang
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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From the White Terror to the Taiwan Straits Crises, from the normalization of Sino-American relations to Trump-era rising tensions, The Struggle for Taiwan charts the paths to our present predicament to show what futures might be possible.
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Good history, limited analysis
- By John on 08-18-24
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17. The Struggle for Taiwan
- A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between
- Narrated by: Austin Yang
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 05-14-24
- Language: English
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The Snakehead
- An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
- By: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
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A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss....
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But Is It a Crime?
- By Roy on 08-23-09
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18. The Snakehead
- An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 07-24-09
- Language: English
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
- By: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 29 hrs and 1 min
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In this Pulitzer Prize - winning biography, Barbara Tuchman explores American relations with China through the experiences of one of our men on the ground....
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A period that directly affected our world today
- By Charlotte on 08-29-12
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19. Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 29 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 07-27-09
- Language: English
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Wild Swans
- Three Daughters of China
- By: Jung Chang
- Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
- Length: 22 hrs and 52 mins
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Few books have had such an impact: a popular best seller, a critically acclaimed history of China, a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty, and an uplifting story of bravery and survival....
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Accurate, moving and chilling
- By David on 12-15-12
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20. Wild Swans
- Three Daughters of China
- Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
- Length: 22 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 12-13-11
- Language: English
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