China Biography

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    • A Life of Li Bai (Li Po)
    • By: Ha Jin
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting: a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai - also known as Li Po....

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    • An Infantryman's Life After World War II
    • By: E. B. Sledge, Stephen E. Ambrose
    • Narrated by: Dan John Miller
    • Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 587 ratings
    • Picking up where his previous memoir leaves off, Sledge, a young marine, charts his own difficult passage to peace following his horrific experiences in the Pacific....

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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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    • From Mao to Now
    • By: David Shambaugh
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Since the founding of the People's Republic of China over seventy years ago, five paramount leaders have shaped the fates and fortunes of the nation and the ruling Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping....

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    • How Xi's Marxist Nationalism is Shaping China and the World
    • By: Kevin Rudd
    • Narrated by: Kevin Rudd
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-24
    • Language: English
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    • An authoritative account of Xi Jinping's worldview and how it drives Chinese behaviour both domestically and on the world stage.

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    • The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream
    • By: Michael Wood
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Michael Wood has travelled the length and breadth of China, the world's oldest civilization and longest lasting state, to tell a thrilling story of intense drama, fabulous creativity, and deep humanity that stretches back thousands of years.

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    • Xi Jinping and His New China
    • By: Michael Sheridan
    • Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • 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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    • 6,000 Miles of Danger
    • By: Jean Fritz
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-13-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • From award-winning children's author Jean Fritz comes the incredible true account of the Long March, a 6,000-mile journey across China....

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    • The Unknown Story
    • By: Jung Chang, Jon Halliday
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 29 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,597 ratings
    • The most authoritative biography of Mao ever written....

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    • An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China
    • By: Desmond Shum
    • Narrated by: Tim Chiou
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,043 ratings
    • This bestseller is narrated by a man who, with his wife, Whitney Duan, rose to the top levels of power and wealth—and then fell out of favor. Whitney had been disappeared four years before, but this book led to her dramatic reemergence....

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    • Journey to The Good Earth
    • By: Hilary Spurling
    • Narrated by: Hilary Spurling
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • The much honored biographer unearths the life and work of Nobel Prize winner Pearl Buck, whose novels captured ordinary life in China....

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    • By: Li Cunxin
    • Narrated by: Paul English
    • Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,572 ratings
    • One day he would dance with some of the greatest ballet companies of the world....

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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: 09-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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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    • A Memoir
    • By: Ai Weiwei, Allan H. Barr - translator
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 182 ratings
    • The “intimate and expansive” (Time) memoir of “one of the most important artists working in the world today” (Financial Times), telling a remarkable history of China over the last hundred years while also illuminating his artistic process....

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    • China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson
    • By: Paul French
    • Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-24
    • Language: English
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    • New York Times bestselling author Paul French examines a controversial and revealing period in the early life of the legendary Wallis, Duchess of Windsor—her one year in China....

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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 1,964 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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    • A Novel
    • By: Kirstin Chen
    • Narrated by: Catherine Ho
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,405 ratings
    • Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home—she’s built the perfect life....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 07-24-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 350 ratings
    • A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss....

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    • From Harvard Yard to Tiananmen Square, My Life Inside China's Foreign Ministry
    • By: Ji Chaozhu
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • No other narrative from within the corridors of power has offered as frank and intimate an account of the making of the modern Chinese nation as Ji Chaozhu's The Man on Mao's Right....

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