East Asia

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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: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 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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    • 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: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 129 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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    • The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
    • By: Peter Hopkirk
    • Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
    • Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 719 ratings
    • The Great Game between Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia was fought across desolate terrain from the Caucasus to China, over the lonely passes of the Parmirs and Karakorams....

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    • Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding
    • By: Husain Haqqani
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 234 ratings
    • A character-driven history that describes the alliance between America and Pakistan, written by a uniquely insightful participant: Pakistan's former ambassador to the US....

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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: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 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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    • 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: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 36 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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    • The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia
    • By: Sheila Miyoshi Jager
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Li
    • Length: 20 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In the nineteenth century, Russia participated in two "great games": one, pitted the tsar's empire against Britain in Central Asia. The other, saw Russia, China, and Japan vying for domination of the Korean Peninsula....

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    • By: Ezra F. Vogel
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 33 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 330 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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    • The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
    • By: William Dalrymple
    • Narrated by: Sid Sagar
    • Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,164 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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    • A History
    • By: Bruce Cumings
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • In sobering detail, The Korean War chronicles a US home front agitated by Joseph McCarthy, where absolutist conformity discouraged open inquiry and citizen dissent. Bruce Cumings incisively ties our current foreign policy back to Korea....

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    • War in the Far East Series, Book 3
    • By: Peter Harmsen
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Series: War in the Far East, Book 3
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • The last installment of the War in the Far East trilogy, Asian Armageddon 1944-1945, continues and completes the narrative of the first two volumes, describing how a US-led coalition of nations battled Japan into submission through a series of cataclysmic encounters....

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    • Hit and Misadventures - a memoir
    • By: Michael Meyer
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • Not your typical travelogue. Instead, this book is organized by the nature of the experience the author had while traveling. I am an avid world ...

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    • Facing History
    • By: Ezra F. Vogel
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 22 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 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: Edward Said
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 606 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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    • The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia
    • By: Jürgen Osterhammel, Robert Savage - translator
    • Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
    • Length: 25 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 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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    • Dispatches from a Precarious State
    • By: Declan Walsh
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times's most distinguished international correspondents. His portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals....

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    • Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century
    • By: Thant Myint-U
    • Narrated by: Assaf Cohen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • Precariously positioned between China and India, Burma's population has suffered dictatorship, natural disaster, and the dark legacies of colonial rule. As historian, former diplomat, and presidential advisor, Thant Myint-U offers an insider's diagnosis of a country at a breaking point....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Michael J. Seth
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Korea: A Very Short Introduction explores the history, culture, and society of a deeply divided region....

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    • The Quest Continues
    • By: Graham Hancock
    • Narrated by: Graham Hancock
    • Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,778 ratings
    • An intellectual detective story, this history audiobook directs probing questions at orthodox history, presenting disturbing new evidence that historians have tried - but failed - to explain....

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