Asian Women Memoir

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    • A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
    • By: Loung Ung
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,220 ratings
    • One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Connie Chung
    • Narrated by: Connie Chung
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 283 ratings
    • In a sharp, witty, and definitive memoir like no other, iconic trailblazer and legendary journalist Connie Chung delves into her storied career as the first Asian woman to break into an overwhelmingly white, male-dominated television news industry.

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Nicole Chung
    • Narrated by: Janet Song
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 469 ratings
    • Nicole Chung tells of her search for the people who gave her up, which coincided with the birth of her own child. All You Can Ever Know is a profound, moving chronicle of surprising connections and the repercussions of unearthing painful family secrets....

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    • A North Korean Defector’s Story
    • By: Hyeonseo Lee, David John
    • Narrated by: Josie Dunn
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,546 ratings
    • An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom....

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    • Three Daughters of China
    • By: Jung Chang
    • Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
    • Length: 22 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-13-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,971 ratings
    • 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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    • The Story of an Unlikely Hero of World War II
    • By: Ben Montgomery
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • The GIs called her Joey. Hundreds owed their lives to the tiny Filipina who stashed explosives in spare tires, tracked Japanese troop movements, and smuggled maps of fortifications....

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    • The Fight for Our Future
    • By: Maria Ressa
    • Narrated by: Maria Ressa, Rebecca Mozo
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 275 ratings
    • From the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize comes an impassioned and inspiring memoir that chronicles her career fighting fascism, filled with insights and advice for standing against authoritarian bullies and confronting disinformation and lies. It includes a foreword by Amal Clooney.

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    • The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
    • By: Jung Chang
    • Narrated by: Jolene Kim
    • Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 435 ratings
    • Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age....

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    • How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
    • By: Jack Weatherford
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 738 ratings
    • The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the greatest empire the world has ever known. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section from The Secret History of the Mongols, leaving a single tantalizing quote from Genghis Khan: “Let us reward our female offspring”....

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    • A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
    • By: Rabia Chaudry
    • Narrated by: Rabia Chaudry
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 380 ratings
    • From the bestselling author and host of the wildly popular Undisclosed podcast, a warm, intimate memoir about food, body image, and growing up in a loving but sometimes oppressively concerned Pakistani immigrant family....

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    • A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa
    • By: Jim Towey
    • Narrated by: Jim Towey
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • From a trusted advisor and devoted friend of Mother Teresa comes an extraordinary firsthand account of the miraculous woman behind the saint.

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    • Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl
    • By: Hyeseung Song
    • Narrated by: Hyeseung Song
    • Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • For listeners of Crying in H Mart and Minor Feelings as well as lovers of the film Minari comes a searing coming-of-age memoir about the daughter of ambitious Asian American immigrants and her search for self-worth.

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    • A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History
    • By: Lan Yan
    • Narrated by: Angela Lin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Through the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family’s history through early 20th century to present day....

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    • Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
    • By: Jung Chang
    • Narrated by: Catherine Ho
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through 100 years of wars, revolutions, and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the center of power, and each of them left an indelible mark on history....

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    • The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo - and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
    • By: Richard Lloyd Parry
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,989 ratings
    • Lucie Blackman - tall, blond, 21 years old - stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000 and disappeared....

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    • Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary
    • By: Anita Anand
    • Narrated by: Tania Rodriguez
    • Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In 1876 Sophia Duleep Singh was born into Indian royalty. Her father, Maharajah Duleep Singh, was heir to the Kingdom of the Sikhs. But Sophia transcended her heritage to devote herself to battling injustice and inequality, a far cry from the life to which she was born....

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    • A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels
    • By: Isabel Sun Chao, Claire Chao
    • Narrated by: Rachel Yong, Claire Chao, Isabel Sun Chao
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • Meticulously researched, Remembering Shanghai follows five generations, from vibrant Shanghai to the bright lights of Hong Kong. By turns harrowing and heartwarming, this vivid memoir explores identity and loss against the epic backdrop of a country in turmoil....

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    • A Journey from East to West and Back
    • By: Janice P. Nimura
    • Narrated by: Emily Zeller
    • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 156 ratings
    • In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men....

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    • A Partial Autobiography
    • By: Emily Hahn
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 22 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • China to Me is a candid, rollicking literary travelogue from a pioneering New Yorker writer, an intrepid heroine who documented China in the years before World War II....

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    • Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire
    • By: Ira Mukhoty
    • Narrated by: Shernaz Patel
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • The very first attempt to chronicle the women who played a vital role in building the Mughal empire, Daughters of the Sun is an illuminating and gripping history of a little known aspect of the most magnificent dynasty the world has ever known....

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