China Contemporary

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    • What Everyone Needs to Know®
    • By: Arthur R. Kroeber
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 238 ratings
    • China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know is a concise introduction to the most astonishing economic growth story of the last three decades. In the 1980s, China was an impoverished backwater. Today it is the world's second biggest economy....

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    • By: Henry Kissinger
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Hormann
    • Length: 20 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,390 ratings
    • 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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    • America and China in Southeast Asia
    • By: David Shambaugh
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The United States and China are engaged in a broad-gauged and global competition for power. While this competition ranges across the entire world, it is centered in Asia. In this book, David Shambaugh focuses on the critical sub-region of Southeast Asia....

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    • New Crobuzon, Book 2
    • By: China Mieville
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Series: New Crobuzon, Book 2
    • Length: 26 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,040 ratings
    • Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and slaves, their bodies remade into grotesque biological oddities, is being transported to the fledgling colony of New Crobuzon....

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    • Fragile Superpower
    • By: Susan L. Shirk
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Shirk argues that rising powers such as China tend to provoke wars in large part because other countries mishandle them. Unless we understand China's brittle internal politics and the fears that motivate its leaders, we face the very real possibility of avoidable conflict with China....

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    • A History
    • By: John Keay
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 25 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 221 ratings
    • Crisp, judicious, and engaging, China is the classic single-volume history for anyone seeking to understand the present and future of this immensely powerful nation....

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    • The Novel
    • By: Edward Rutherfurd
    • Narrated by: Daniel York Loh, Zheng Xi Yong, Andrew Wincott
    • Length: 34 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 519 ratings
    • Edward Rutherfurd has enthralled millions of people with his grand, sweeping historical sagas that tell the history of a famous place over multiple generations. Now, in China: The Novel, Rutherfurd takes listeners into the rich and fascinating milieu of the Middle Kingdom....

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    • By: Yan Ge
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • In the fictional Chinese city of Yong’an, an amateur cryptozoologist is commissioned to uncover the stories of its fabled beasts. These creatures live alongside humans in near-inconspicuousness - save their greenish skin, serrated earlobes, and strange birthmarks....

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    • A Political Thriller
    • By: Fritz Galt
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-24
    • Language: English
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    • When the president accepts a bribe ...everyone pays the price. One day, innocent accountant Sean Cooper is a happily married man with a great job ...

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    • Geography & Nature
    • By: iMinds
    • Narrated by: Leah Vandenburg
    • Length: 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • Learn about the history and geography of China with iMinds....

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    • By: Adam Brown
    • Narrated by: Sarah Moore
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • Have you ever wondered how China became the most populous and one of the most industrially active nations today? This audiobook will take you from Ancient China and imperial dynasties to communism and capitalism. Discover the rich history of this superpower....

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    • The Bubble That Never Pops
    • By: Thomas Orlik
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • The Chinese economy appears destined for failure, the financial bubble forever in peril of popping, the real estate sector doomed to collapse, the factories fated for bankruptcy....

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    • By: Edward Rutherfurd
    • Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Daniel York Loh, Zheng Xi Yong
    • Length: 35 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • China in the 19th century: a proud and ancient empire forbidden to foreigners. The West desires Chinese tea above all other things but lacks the silver to buy it. Instead, Western adventurers resort to smuggling opium in exchange....

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    • The Flense (Volume 1)
    • By: Saul Tanpepper
    • Narrated by: Doug Greene
    • Series: The Flense: China, Book 1-3
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Hundreds die in a fiery train crash in northern China. A cargo ship smuggling refugees is lost to calm seas off the Libyan coast. Entire villages in Ghana are abandoned overnight....

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    • By: China Miéville
    • Narrated by: Matthew Frow
    • Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • In a remote house on a hilltop, a lonely boy witnesses a profoundly traumatic event. He tries - and fails - to flee....

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    • By: Vanessa Streete
    • Narrated by: Fiona Honan-Bowes
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Dobson, just one of those names anyone who's anyone in London knows. Elizabeth and her brother James have it all: the clubs, the money, the high life. But after the sudden death of their parents the only thing they really have is each other....

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    • By: China Mieville
    • Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • On board the moletrain Medes, Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt....

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