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    • The China Collectors

    • America's Century-Long Hunt for Asian Art Treasures
    • By: Karl E. Meyer, Shareen Blair Brysac
    • Narrated by: George Backman
    • Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
    • Unabridged
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    Thanks to Salem sea captains, Gilded Age millionaires, curators on horseback, and missionaries gone native, North American museums now possess the greatest collections of Chinese art outside of East Asia itself. How did it happen? The China Collectors is the first full account of a century-long treasure hunt in China from the Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion to Mao Zedong's 1949 ascent.

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    • By Mu Shihong on 01-17-18

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    • Deutsche Balladen, Teil 7 (Bibliothek der Klassiker)

    • By: Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Theodor Storm, Wolfgang Müller, and others
    • Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche
    • Length: 57 mins
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    20 der schönsten deutschen Balladen aus dem 19. Jahrhundert! Mit dabei: "Napoleon im Kreml", "Lethe", "König Etzels Schwert", "Der Tod und Frau Laura", "Die Füße im Feuer" (alle C. F. Meyer), "Lied des Harfenmädchens", "Walpurgisnacht" (alle T. Storm), "Der Mönch von Heisterbach" (W. Müller), "Das verfluchte Dorf" (K. A. Candidus), "Der Narr des Grafen von Zimmern", "Ballade vom jungen Mörder Haube", "Ballade vom dürren König", "Seemärchen", etc.

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