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    • China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
    • By: Michael Pillsbury
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,523 ratings
    • One of the US government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise - and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us....

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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 2,507 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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    • How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century
    • By: Dmitri Alperovitch, Garrett M. Graff - contributor
    • Narrated by: Will Collyer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • A leading national security expert lays out how the U. S. can keep its place as the world’s top superpower in the face of a rising China....

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    • Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America
    • By: Jim Sciutto
    • Narrated by: Jim Sciutto
    • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 820 ratings
    • CNN’s chief national security correspondent reveals the invisible fronts of 21st-century warfare and identifies the ongoing battles being waged - often without the public’s full knowledge - from disinformation campaigns to advanced satellite weaponry....

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    • The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future
    • By: Chun Han Wong
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • From one of the most admired reporters covering China today comes a vital new account of the life and political vision of Xi Jinping, the authoritarian leader of the People’s Republic whose hard-edged tactics have set the rising superpower on a collision with Western liberal democracies.

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    • The Battle for Japan, 1944 - 45
    • By: Max Hastings
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-16-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 678 ratings
    • In his critically acclaimed Armageddon, Hastings detailed the last twelve months of the struggle for Germany. Here, in what can be considered a companion volume, he covers the horrific story of the war against Japan....

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    • Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look inside North Korea
    • By: Jang Jin-sung
    • Narrated by: Daniel York
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,193 ratings
    • In this rare insider's view into contemporary North Korea, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il....

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    • A Chinese Education
    • By: Peter Hessler
    • Narrated by: Peter Hessler
    • Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Author Peter Hessler provides an intimate and revelatory account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, by an author who has observed the country’s tumultuous changes over the past quarter century.

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    • The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China
    • By: Kevin Rudd
    • Narrated by: Kevin Rudd, Rafe Beckley
    • Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 264 ratings
    • A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is no longer unthinkable....

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    • Beyond Socialism and Capitalism
    • By: Keyu Jin
    • Narrated by: Jenapher Zheng
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • World-renowned economist and professor at the London School of Economics Keyu Jin presents a myth-dispelling, comprehensive guide to the Chinese economy and its path to ascendancy....

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    • By: Elizabeth C. Economy
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • An economic and military superpower with twenty percent of the world's population, China has the wherewithal to transform the international system. Xi Jinping's bold calls for China to "lead in the reform of the global governance system" suggest that he has just such an ambition....

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    • A Memoir of Murder in My Country
    • By: Patricia Evangelista
    • Narrated by: Patricia Evangelista
    • Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • Journalist Patricia Evangelista came of age in the aftermath of a street revolution that forged a new future for the Philippines. Three decades later, in the face of mounting inequality, the nation discovered the fragility of its democratic institutions under the regime of strongman Rodrigo Duterte.

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    • How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise
    • By: Susan L. Shirk
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • For three decades after Mao's death in 1976, China's leaders adopted a restrained approach to foreign policy. To facilitate the country's economic ascendance, and to prevent a backlash, they reassured the outside world of China's peaceful intentions. Then, as Susan Shirk shows, something changed....

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    • A World History
    • By: Odd Arne Westad
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 22 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 419 ratings
    • In The Cold War, Odd Arne Westad offers a new perspective on a century when a superpower rivalry and an ideological war transformed every corner of our globe....

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    • The Coming Conflict with China
    • By: Hal Brands, Michael Beckley
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 289 ratings
    • The Sino-American contest is driven by clashing geopolitical interests and a stark ideological dispute over whether authoritarianism or democracy will dominate the twenty-first century....

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    • A New History
    • By: Christopher Goscha
    • Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
    • Length: 23 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • A major achievement, Vietnam offers the grand narrative of the country's complex past and the creation of the modern state of Vietnam....

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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 38 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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    • Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
    • By: Andrei Lankov
    • Narrated by: Steven Roy Grimsley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 600 ratings
    • Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been....

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    • My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
    • By: Suki Kim
    • Narrated by: Janet Song
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 930 ratings
    • A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign....

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    • From the Ancient Dynasties to a Modern Superpower: A Retelling for Our Times
    • By: Linda Jaivin
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • From kung-fu to tofu, tea to trade routes, sages to silk, China has influenced cuisine, commerce, military strategy, aesthetics, and philosophy across the world for thousands of years....

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