Asia Politics

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    • Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion....

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    • Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
    • By: Hal Gold, Yuma Totani - foreword
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 18-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of China. Far from front lines and prying eyes, Japanese doctors and their assistants subjected human guinea pigs to gruesome medical experiments....

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    • Revised Edition
    • By: R. H. P. Mason, J. G. Caiger
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 27-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • A classic of Japanese history, this audiobook is the preeminent work on the history of Japan. Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume complete history of the nation of Japan....

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    • The Secret Wisdom of the Samurai
    • By: Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Alexander Bennett - translator
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 16-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • The comprehensive and accurate edition of the Hagakure is a must-have for serious martial artists or fans of samurai and the Bushido code....

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    • Nomad Warriors of the Steppe
    • By: Barry Cunliffe
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 28-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • The Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium BC....

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    • Facing History
    • By: Ezra F. Vogel
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 22 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 14-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • China and Japan have cultural and political connections that stretch back 1,500 years. But today, their relationship is strained. Ezra Vogel's China and Japan examines key turning points in Sino-Japanese history....

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    • Meiji and His World, 1852-1912
    • By: Donald Keene
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 38 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Little has been written about the strangely obscured figure of Meiji himself, the first Japanese emperor ever to meet a European. But now, Donald Keene sifts the available evidence to present a rich portrait not only of Meiji but also of change during this period in Japan's history....

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    • The Impossible Country
    • By: Daniel Tudor
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 25-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • South Korea's amazing rise from the ashes: the inside story of an economic, political, and cultural phenomenon....

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    • A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
    • By: Ji-li Jiang
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 26-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has brains, friends, and a bright future. Then Mao Zedong launches China’s infamous Cultural Revolution....

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    • The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition
    • By: Nisid Hajari
    • Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Nobody expected the liberation of India and birth of Pakistan to be so bloody - it was supposed to be an answer to the dreams of Muslims and Hindus who had been ruled by the British for centuries....

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    • A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present
    • By: Adeeb Khalid
    • Narrated by: Aaqil Ahmed
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Adeeb Khalid provides the first comprehensive history of Central Asia from the mid-18th century to today, shedding light on the historical forces that have shaped the region under imperial and Communist rule....

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    • A History of Western Fascination with the East
    • By: Christopher Harding
    • Narrated by: Christopher Harding
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 25-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Christopher Harding's captivating gallery of geniuses, adventurers and con-men celebrates Asia's impact on the West in all its variety.....

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    • New Essays and Columns
    • By: Chetan Bhagat
    • Narrated by: Anindya Chakravorty
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-18
    • Language: English
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    • Love your country? Want to make it truly great? Tired of loud debates and complex arguments which lead to no solutions? Welcome to...

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    • By: Asia Mackay
    • Narrated by: Georgia Maguire
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • It's Lex's first day back at work after maternity leave. She worries about the separation from her daughter as she leaves her with the nanny - but it's normal to worry, right? Find out....

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    • Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
    • By: Andrei Lankov
    • Narrated by: Steven Roy Grimsley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 224 ratings
    • Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been....

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    • India's 1991 Story
    • By: Jairam Ramesh
    • Narrated by: Sanjiv Jhaveri
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In 1991 India faced its 'Greece moment': an unprecedented financial crisis against the backdrop of political uncertainty and crumbling investor confidence....

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    • Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
    • By: Daniel Tudor, James Pearson
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms....

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    • A Concise History: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    • By: Rebecca E. Karl
    • Narrated by: Bobby Brill
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 24-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Rebecca E. Karl places the revolutionary leader's personal experiences, social visions and theory, military strategies, and developmental and foreign policies in a dynamic narrative....

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    • Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy
    • By: George Magnus
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 23-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 226 ratings
    • Will China rule the world, or will its dream turn into a nightmare? George Magnus, the trusted economic commentator on China, provides a penetrating account of the threats to China's continued rise....

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