China Great History

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    • The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
    • By: Frank Dikötter
    • Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
    • Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-24
    • Language: English
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    • Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake the West in less than fifteen years. It led to one of the world's greatest catastrophes.

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    • A Concise Introduction to Chinese History, Culture, Dynasties, Mythology, Great Achievements & More of the Oldest Living Civilization
    • By: History Brought Alive
    • Narrated by: R. E. Harter
    • Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • While there are many books that explore China’s history, public knowledge is still lacking....

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    • China and the World
    • By: Timothy Brook
    • Narrated by: Timothy Brook
    • Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • Timothy Brook analyzes the last eight centuries of China’s relationship with the world in this magnificent history that brings together accounts from civil servants, horse traders, spiritual leaders, explorers, pirates, emperors, migrant workers, invaders, visionaries, and traitors....

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    • How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History
    • By: Sarah Rose
    • Narrated by: Sarah Rose
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 280 ratings
    • Here is the remarkable account of Robert Fortune's journeys into China - a thrilling narrative that combines history, geography, botany, natural science, and old-fashioned adventure....

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    • A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
    • By: Yang Jisheng, Stacy Mosher - translator, Guo Jian - translator
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 26 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Following his groundbreaking and award-winning history of the Great Famine, Yang Jisheng presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution to understanding those years' lasting influence today....

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    • Russia, China, and the Next World War
    • By: Jim Sciutto
    • Narrated by: Jim Sciutto
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • The essential new book by CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto, reporting from the front lines of political hotspots and warzones across the globe....

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    • The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
    • By: Frank Dikötter
    • Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
    • Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-24
    • Language: English
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    • Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake the West in less than fifteen years. It led to one of the world's greatest catastrophes.

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    • Democracy Versus Autocracy from the Ancient World to the U.S. and China
    • By: Matthew Kroenig
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • Matthew Kroenig advances the riveting argument that democracies tend to excel in great power rivalries. He contends that democracies actually have unique economic, diplomatic, and military advantages in long-run geopolitical competitions....

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    • The History of China's Most Famous Landmark
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Violet Meadow
    • Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • The Great Wall of China is perhaps the wonder of the world that has most captured the human imagination....

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    • Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
    • By: Tim Marshall
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Series: Politics of Place
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,762 ratings
    • Whether ancient, crumbling parchments or generated by Google, maps tell us things we want to know, not only about our current location but about the world in general....

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    • Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road
    • By: Rob Schmitz
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • Modern Shanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day to partake in a mad torrent of capital, ideas, and opportunity....

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    • Investing Profitably in the World's Greatest Market
    • By: Jim Rogers
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-07
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • If the 20th century was the American century, then the 21st century belongs to China....

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    • How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World
    • By: Alex Joske
    • Narrated by: James Daniel Burkdoll
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Spies and Lies a groundbreaking expose of elite influence operations by China's little-known Ministry of State Security....

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    • China and the World
    • By: Timothy Brook
    • Narrated by: Timothy Brook
    • Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-23
    • Language: English
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    • Timothy Brook examines the last eight centuries of China's relationship with the world told through the eyes of traders, invaders, civil servants, visionaries, and traitors....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the First and Second Opium War and Their Impact on the History of the United Kingdom and China
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • When diplomatic efforts to introduce opium to the Chinese market failed, the British Parliament approved an alternative: war. There were two wars: one from 1839 to 1842, and another from 1856 to 1860. They are collectively known as the Opium Wars....

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    • The Making of Hong Kong
    • By: Vaudine England
    • Narrated by: Vaudine England
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • This timely, well-researched, and “illuminating” (The New York Times Book Review) new history of Hong Kong reveals the untold stories of the diverse peoples who have made it a multicultural world metropolis—and whose freedoms are endangered today....

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    • The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic
    • By: Karl Taro Greenfeld
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-22
    • Language: English
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    • When the SARS virus broke out in China in January 2003, Karl Taro Greenfeld was the editor of Time Asia in Hong Kong, just a few miles from the epicenter of the outbreak. Greenfeld and his staff soon found themselves immersed in the story of a lifetime....

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    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr
    • Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Violent confrontation between armed groups over the supply of illegal narcotics is something we commonly associate with criminal gangs in modern cities, but in the mid-nineteenth century Great Britain went to war with Imperial China....

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