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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573398 to listen full audiobooks.Title: In Search of Amrit Kaur: An Indian Princess in Wartime ParisAuthor: Livia Manera SambuyNarrator: Christina ColeFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 35 minutesRelease date: January 12, 2023Genres: AsiaPublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. As she builds her own life anew, an Italian writer embarks on an all-consuming search for the true story of the mysterious princess H. H. Amrit Kaur of Mandi. On a sweltering summer day in 2007, having just lost her brother to illness, Livia Manera Sambuy finds herself standing before a 1924 photograph of a stunningly elegant Indian princess at a museum in Mumbai. What's written in the caption will change her life forever. This gorgeous Punjabi princess, it's said, sold her jewels in occupied Paris to save Jewish lives, only to be arrested by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp, where she died within a year. Could it be true? And if so, how could such a sensational story have gone unnoticed? Instinctively, almost viscerally, Manera becomes entangled in the mystery, losing herself in the history of the British Raj, in the diamonds and sapphires of the twentieth-century aristocracy, in the Circus Balls and Jubilees, and in the lives of extraordinary figures such as the Maharaja Jagatjit Singh of Kapurthala, the Jewish banker Albert Kahn, and the Russian explorer Nicholas Roerich-all in a decades-long pursuit of the elusive Amrit Kaur. When she rendezvouses with the princess's eighty-year-old daughter, Manera's search takes on a new dimension as she strives to reconnect an orphan with the mother who abandoned her in 1933, leaving behind her two children, her raja husband, and a legacy of activism in India's women's civil rights movement. In Search of Amrit Kaur is an engrossing detective story, a kaleidoscopic history lesson, and a moving portrait of women, across the century, seeking personal freedom. © Livia Manera Sambuy 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576602 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Year of the Hawk: America's Descent into Vietnam, 1965Author: James A. WarrenNarrator: Fred SandersFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 44 minutesRelease date: November 29, 2022Genres: AsiaPublisher's Summary: From a celebrated military historian, a powerful, âhighly recommendedâ (Library Journal, starred review) account of the most pivotal year of the Vietnam Warâthe cataclysm that âcontinues to haunt American politics and cultureâ (Publishers Weekly). The Vietnam War was the greatest disaster in the history of American foreign policy. The conflict shook the nation to its foundations, exacerbating already deep cleavages in American society, and left the country baffled and ambivalent about its role in the world. Year of the Hawk is a military and political history of the war in Vietnam during 1965âthe pivotal first year of the American conflict, when the United States decided to intervene directly with combat units in a struggle between communist and pro-Western forces in South Vietnam that had raged on and off for twenty years. By December 1965, a powerful communist offensive had been turned back, and the US Army had prevailed in one of the most dramatic battles in American military history, but nonetheless there were many signs and portents that US involvement would soon slide toward the tipping point of tragedy. Vividly interweaving events in the US capital with action in Southeast Asia, historian James A. Warren explores the mindsets and strategies of the adversaries and concludes that, in the end, Washington was not so much outfought in Vietnam as outthought by revolutionaries pursuing a brilliant, protracted war strategy. Based on new research, Year of the Hawk offers fresh insight into how a nationalist movement led by communists in a small country defeated the most powerful nation on earth and is âa well-researched overview of how America got into Vietnamâand why it shouldnât haveâ (Kirkus Reviews).
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575422 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl HarborAuthor: Steve KemperNarrator: Dan WorenFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 14 hours 27 minutesRelease date: November 8, 2022Genres: AsiaPublisher's Summary: A gripping, behind-the-scenes account of the personalities and contending forces in Tokyo during the volatile decade that led to World War II, as seen through the eyes of the American ambassador who attempted to stop the slide to war. In 1932, Japan was in crisis. Naval officers had assassinated the prime minister and conspiracies flourished. The military had a stranglehold on the government. War with Russia loomed, and propaganda campaigns swept the country, urging schoolchildren to give money to procure planes and tanks. Into this maelstrom stepped Joseph C. Grew, Americaâs most experienced and talented diplomat. When Grew was appointed ambassador to Japan, not only was the country in turmoil, its relationship with America was rapidly deteriorating. For the next decade, Grew attempted to warn American leaders about the risks of Japanâs raging nationalism and rising militarism, while also trying to stabilize Tokyoâs increasingly erratic and volatile foreign policy. From domestic terrorism by Japanese extremists to the global rise of Hitler and the fateful attack on Pearl Harbor, the events that unfolded during Grewâs tenure proved to be pivotal for Japan, and for the world. His dispatches from the darkening heart of the Japanese empire would prove prescientâfor his time, and for our own. Drawing on Grewâs diary of his time in Tokyo as well as U.S. embassy correspondence, diplomatic dispatches, and firsthand Japanese accounts, Our Man in Tokyo brings to life a man who risked everything to avert another world war, the country where he staked it allâand the abyss that swallowed it. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569499 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean RegimeAuthor: Bradley HopeNarrator: Lee OsorioFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 46 minutesRelease date: November 1, 2022Genres: AsiaPublisher's Summary: How did an Ivy League activist become a global fugitive? The New York Times bestselling co-author of Billion Dollar Whale and Blood and Oil chronicles the heart-pounding tale of a self-taught operative his high-stakes attempt subvert the North Korean regime. âPropulsive . . . Hopeâs account is both deeply reported and novelistic.ââEd Caesar, contributing staff writer for The New Yorker, author of The Moth and the Mountain In the early 2000s, Adrian Hong was a soft-spoken Yale undergraduate looking for his place in the world. After reading a harrowing account of life inside North Korea, he realized he had found a cause so pressing that he was ready to devote his life to it. What began as a trip down the safe and well-worn path of organizing soon morphed into something more dangerous. Hong journeyed to China, outwitting Chinese security services as he helped asylum-seeking North Koreans escape across the border. Meanwhile, Hongâs secret organization, Cheollima Civil Defense (later renamed Free Joseon), began tracking the North Korean governmentâs activities, and its volatile third-generation ruler, Kim Jong-un. Free Joseon targeted North Korean diplomats who might be persuaded to defect, while drawing up plans for a government-in-exile. After the shocking broad-daylight assassination in 2017 of Kim Jong-nam, the dictatorâs older brother, Hong, along with U.S. Marine veteran Christopher Ahn, helped ferry Kim Jong-namâs family to safety. Then Hong took the group a step further. He initiated a series of high-stakes direct actions, culminating in an armed raid at the North Korean embassy in Madridâan act that would put Ahn behind bars and turn Hong into one of the worldâs most unlikely fugitives. In the tradition of Jon Krakauerâs Into the Wild, The Rebel and the Kingdom is an exhilarating account of a man who turns his back on the status quoâto instead live boldly by his principles. Acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Bradley Hopeâwho broke numerous details of Hongâs operations in The Wall Street Journalânow reveals the full contours of this remarkable story of idealism and insanity, hubris and heroism, all set within the secret battle for the future of the worldâs most mysterious and unsettling nation.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573554 to listen full audiobooks.Title: To Love and Be Loved: A Personal Portrait of Mother TeresaAuthor: Jim ToweyNarrator: Jim ToweyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 5 minutesRelease date: September 6, 2022Genres: AsiaPublisher's Summary: From a trusted advisor and devoted friend of Mother Teresa comes a âpowerfulâ (The Washington Free Beacon) firsthand account of the miraculous woman behind the saint and a book that is ârich in reflection on contemporary sanctityâ (George Weigel). Mother Teresa was one of the most admired women of the 20th century, and her memory continues to inspire charitable work around the world. She believed the greatest need of a human being is to love and be loved. In 1948, she founded the Missionaries of Charity to work directly with the very poorest of Calcutta. From the efforts of one woman entering the slums of Entally, the Missionaries of Charity grew into an organization operating soup kitchens, health clinics, hospices, and shelters in 139 countries, at no cost to any government or to those who served. In 2016, she became Saint Teresa of Calcutta. Author Jim Towey had been a high-flying Congressional staffer and lawyer in the 1980s until a brief meeting with Mother Teresa illuminated the emptiness of his life. He began volunteering at one of her soup kitchens and using his legal skills and political connections to help the Missionaries of Charity. When Mother Teresa suggested he take up shifts at her AIDS hospice, Towey realized he was all in. Soon, he gave up his job and possessions and became a full-time volunteer for Mother Teresa. He traveled with her frequently, arranged her meetings with politicians, and handled many of her legal affairs. To Love and Be Loved is an âinspiring and joyfulâ (Kirkus Reviews) firsthand account of Mother Teresaâs last years, and the first book ever to detail her dealings with worldly matters. We see her gracefully navigate the opportunities and challenges to leadership, the perils of celebrity, and the humiliations and triumphs of aging. We also catch her indulging in chocolate ice cream, making jokes about mini-skirts, and telling the President of the United States heâs wrong. Above all, we see her extraordinary devotion to God and to the very poorest of His children. Mother Teresa taught Towey to be more prayerful, less selfish, more humble, less worldly, move in love with God, and less in love with himself. Her lessons are here for all to share.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574480 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Fragile Cargo: Chinaâs Wartime Race to Save the Treasures of the Forbidden CityAuthor: Adam BrookesNarrator: Adam BrookesFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 23 minutesRelease date: September 1, 2022Genres: AsiaPublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The gripping true story of the intrepid curators who saved China's art from the ravages of the Sino-Japanese War and WW2 Fragile Cargo will share the as-yet-untold story of the brave people who saved China's art from the ravages of the Second World War, undertaking a perilous journey across the vast country in order to protect these fragile treasures. After the end of the war, and the beginning of the Communist regime, the Forbidden City curators were each faced with a stark choice: remain with their rescued artefacts in China, or flee with them to Taiwan. Depending on their choice, the curators' fates took startlingly different, sometimes heart-breaking turns. Author and former BBC Beijing correspondent Adam Brookes draws on first-hand diary accounts and his own interviews with eyewitnesses to offer a new perspective on China's twentieth-century history, exploring the cultural, social and political impact of the war and the Revolution on the country's people and its art heritage. © Adam Brookes 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564708 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Newlyweds: Rearranging Marriage in Modern IndiaAuthor: Mansi ChoksiNarrator: Deepti GuptaFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 57 minutesRelease date: August 30, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1Genres: AsiaPublisher's Summary: A thought-provoking and moving investigation into India as a society in transition through the lens of forbidden love, as three young couples reject arranged marriages and risk everything for true love amid social and political upheaval. In India, two out of every three people are under the age of thirty-five. These are men and women who grew up with the internet and the advent of smartphones and social media. But when it comes to love and marriage, theyâre expected to adhere to thousands of years of tradition. Itâs that conflict between obeying convention and embracing modernity that drives journalist Mansi Choksiâs The Newlyweds. In this âheart-wrenching and inspiring portrait of love under pressureâ (Publishers Weekly), Choksi shines a light on three young couples who buck against arranged marriages in the pursuit of true love, illustrating the challenges, shame, anger, triumph, and loss their actions set in play. Against the backdrop of Indiaâs beautiful villages and cities, Choksi introduces our newlyweds. First, thereâs the lesbian couple forced to flee for a chance at a life together. Then thereâs the Hindu woman and Muslim man who escaped their families under the cover of night after being harassed by a violent militia group. Finally, thereâs the inter-caste couple who are doing everything to avoid the same fate as a similar couple who were burned alive. âThe most nuanced, lyrical, and moving book about love and marriage in modern India yet writtenâ (Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City), The Newlyweds raises universal questions, such as: What are we really willing to risk for love? If weâre lucky enough to find it, does it change us? If so, for the better? Or for the worse?
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577143 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Japan: A BBC documentary collectionAuthor: Philip Dodd, Alex Bellos, Natasha Pulley, Christopher Harding, Matthew Sweet, Rana Mitter, Richard Lloyd Parry, SF Said, David Peace, Roy JenkinsNarrator: VariousFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 37 minutesRelease date: August 11, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2Genres: AsiaPublisher's Summary: A captivating anthology of programmes, painting a multi-faceted portrait of a unique country Japan is a land of complexity, contrast and contradictions. The world's third-largest economy, it is a powerhouse of innovation and a pioneer in technology, fashion and pop culture. But it also has a rich, ancient heritage and a deep reverence for custom, ritual and tradition. This illuminating 2-part radio collection traverses the different aspects of this fascinating country, from its famous historical figures to its diverse cultural landscape. Part 1: History opens with Japan in Five Lives, in which cultural historian Christopher Harding portrays the lives of five colourful characters from the country's past to answer the question 'Who are the Japanese'? In Killing Time in Imperial Japan, he explores early 20th Century Tokyo, a bustling, cosmopolitan capital where the meaning of 'time' was hotly contested. Dark Blossoms sees him examining the doubts and misgivings accompanying Japan's rapid embrace of modernity, while in Japanese Tsunami, broadcasters Richard Lloyd Parry and Matthew Sweet discuss the devastating natural disaster that rocked the country in 2011. In Land of the Rising Sums, Alex Bellos visits Kyoto to ask why Asian cultures seem so much better at maths; in Japan and Religion, Roy Jenkins discusses the place of religious traditions in modern Japan; and in Supernatural Japan, Christopher Harding looks at how the Japanese have used ghosts and ghost stories to make sense of their world. Part 2: Culture celebrates Japan's art, literature and film. In Japan Now 2020, Philip Dodd talks to writers Hiromi Ito and Yukiko Motoya and photographer Tomoko Sawada about women's roles in Japanese culture today. Meanwhile, in Images of Japan, illustrator Fumio Obata and manga translator Jocelyne Allen discuss Japanese comic book imagery, and we join novelists Kyoko Nakajima and Yuya Sato in conversation with Christopher Harding. Landmark: Seven Samurai and Landmark: Rashomon see Matthew Sweet and Rana Mitter investigating the stories behind Akira Kurosawa's two most influential films, in the company of guests including film scholar Ian Christie and authors SF Said, David Peace and Natasha Pulley. The Tale of Genji takes us into the shimmering world of mediaeval Japan, as Rana Mitter explores Murasaki Shikibu's masterpiece, widely considered to be the world's first novel. Finally, in Godzilla and Hayao Miyazaki, Christopher Harding considers cinematic depictions of Japanese fear, as exemplified by the legendary monster king and the 2013 animated film The Wind Rises. Contents Japan in Five Lives Killing Time in Imperial Japan Dark Blossoms Japanese Tsunami Land of the Rising Sums Japan and Religion Supernatural Japan Japan Now 2020 Images of Japan Landmark: Seven Samurai Landmark: Rashomon The Tale of Genji Godzilla and The Wind Rises © 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573377 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Incarnations: India in 50 LivesAuthor: Sunil KhilnaniNarrator: Sunil KhilnaniFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 18 minutesRelease date: August 11, 2022Genres: AsiaPublisher's Summary: The lives and afterlives of 50 incredible Indian people from ancient India to the 21st century 'Essential... whoppingly aurally intense' New Statesman '... makes the mind fly across time, place and history. You may smile as, mentally, you walk alongside Khilnani up some flinty slope. You will keep thinking about what he said long after.' The Telegraph Historian Sunil Khilnani, Professor of History and Politics at Ashoka University, takes listeners on an immersive, whirlwind journey from ancient India to the 21st century through the life stories of 50 remarkable individuals, exploring their surprising legacies and illuminating both the wonders and the urgent conflicts of India today. From the 5th century grammarian Panini, a pioneer in algorithmic thinking, to the wandering poetess Mirabai, challenger of the gender and caste order; from Malik Ambar, a 16th century north African who became a Deccan kingmaker, to Dhirubhai Ambani, the 20th century entrepreneur whose son now ranks among the world's richest billionaires; from Lakshmibai, the 19th century queen who enjoyed weightlifting, wrestling and steeplechasing, and who became a lightning rod for India's attitudes to women, to the contemporary painter M.F. Husain, who shaped a distinctive Indian modernism; Khilnani brings to life an extraordinary panorama of India's most revealing and resonant lives. Guests featured include Javed Akhtar, one of the great songwriters of Indian cinema, renowned actress Sharmila Tagore, historian Romila Thapar, poet Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, artists Howard Hodgkin and Bharti Kher, Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, author and political activist Arundhati Roy, and Sanskrit scholar Sheldon Pollock. With the help of these experts, Khilnani investigates the lives of political strategists and social reformers, filmmakers and farmers, mathematicians and religious gurus, warriors and saints, artists and slaves, industry titans and freedom fighters, who have co-existed in a country bound together by its people, in all their differences and commonalities. The chosen lives conjure up an India full of relevance and infinite range, celebrating the variety of the country in all its diversity of thought, religion, politics and art. Production credits Presented by Sunil Khilnani Produced by Mark Savage, Jeremy Grange and Martin Williams Editor: Hugh Levinson Music composed by: Talvin Singh Researcher: Manu Pillai Executive Producer: Martin Smith First broadcast BBC Radio 4 on the following dates: The Buddha: 11 May 2015 Mahavira: 12 May 2015 Panini: 13 May 2015 Kautilya: 14 May 2015 Ashoka: 15 May 2015 Charaka: 18 May 2015 Aryabhata: 19 May 2015 Shankaracharya: 20 May 2015 Rajaraja Chola: 21 May 2015 Basavana: 22 May 2015 Amir Khusro: 25 May 2015 Kabir: 26 May 2015 Guru Nanak: 27 May 2015 Krishnadevaraya: 28 May 2015 Mirabai: 29 May 2015 Akbar: 1 June 2015 Malik Ambar: 2 June 2015 Dara Shikoh: 3 June 2015 Shivaji: 4 June 2015 Nainsukh: 5 June 2015 William Jones: 8 June 2015 Rammohan Roy: 9 June 2015 Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi: 10 June 2015 Jyotirao Phule: 11 June 2015 Birsa Munda: 12 June 2015 Deen Dayal: 26 July 2021 Jamsetji Tata: 27 July 2021 Vivekananda: 28 July 2021 Annie Besant: 29 July 2021 Chidambaram Pillai: 30 July 2021 Ramanujan: 2 August 2021 Tagore: 3 August 2021 Visvesvaraya: 4 August 2021 Periyar: 5 August 2021 Iqbal: 6 August 2021 Amrita Sher-Gil: 9 August 2021 Subhas Chandra Bose: 10 August 2021 Gandhi: 11 August 2021 Jinnah: 12 August 2021 Manto: 13 August 2021 Bhimrao Ambedkar: 16 August 2021 Raj Kapoor: 17 August 2021 Sheikh Abdullah: 18 August 2021 Krishna Menon: 19 August 2021 Subbulakshmi: 20 August 2021 Indira Gandhi: 23 August 2021 Satyajit Ray: 24 August 2021 Charan Singh: 25 August 2021 MF Husain: 26 August 2021 Dhirubhai Ambani: 27 August 2021 © 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575838 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Hong Kong DiariesAuthor: Chris PattenNarrator: Chris PattenFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 25 hours 41 minutesRelease date: June 21, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2Genres: AsiaPublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not - as other British colonies over the decades - for independence, but for handing back in 1997 to the Chinese, from whom most of its territory had been leased 99 years previously. Over the next five years he kept this diary, which describes in detail how Hong Kong was run as a British colony and what happened as the handover approached. The book gives unprecedented insights into negotiating with the Chinese, about how the institutions of democracy in Hong Kong were (belatedly) strengthened and how Patten sought to ensure that a strong degree of self-government would continue after 1997. Unexpectedly, his opponents included not only the Chinese themselves, but some British businessmen and civil service mandarins upset by Patten's efforts, for whom political freedom and the rule of law in Hong Kong seemed less important than keeping on the right side of Beijing. The book concludes with an account of what has happened in Hong Kong since the handover, a powerful assessment of recent events and Patten's reflections on how to deal with China - then and now. © Chris Patten 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/566209 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia and North KoreaAuthor: Katie StallardNarrator: Elizabeth SastreFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 30 minutesRelease date: May 17, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: AsiaPublisher's Summary: History didn't end. Democracy didn't triumph. Americaâs leading role in the world is no longer assured. Instead, authoritarian rule is on the rise, and the global order established after 1945 is under attack. This is the phenomenon Katie Stallard tackles in Dancing on Bones as she examines how the leaders of China, Russia, and North Korea manipulate the past to serve the present and secure the future of authoritarian rule.Russia has annexed Crimea, started a war in eastern Ukraine, and repeatedly massed troops on its borders. China has stepped up war games near Taiwan and militarized the South China Sea, while North Korea has resumed missile testing and blood-curdling threats against the United States. These three states consistently top lists of threats to US and European security, and yet the leaders of all three insist that it is their country that is threatened, rewriting history and exploiting the memory of the wars of the last century to justify their actions and shore up popular support. Since coming to power, Xi Jinping has almost doubled the length of Chinaâs World War II, Vladimir Putin has elevated the memory of the Great Patriotic War to the status of a national religion, and Kim Jong Un has invested vast sums in rebuilding war museums in his impoverished state, while those who try to challenge the official version of history are silenced and jailed. But this didnât start with Putin, Xi, and Kim, and it wonât end with them.Drawing on first-hand, on-the-ground reporting, Dancing on Bones argues that if we want to understand where these three nuclear powers are heading, we must understand the stories they are telling their citizens about the past.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553724 to listen full audiobooks.Title: No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the UyghursAuthor: Nury TurkelNarrator: Stewart LangFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 29 minutesRelease date: May 10, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2Genres: AsiaPublisher's Summary: A powerful memoir by Nury Turkel lays bare Chinaâs repression of the Uyghur people. Turkel is cofounder and board chair of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and a commissioner for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. In recent years, the Peopleâs Republic of China has rounded up as many as three million Uyghurs, placing them in what it calls âreeducation camps,â facilities most of the world identifies as concentration camps. There, the genocide and enslavement of the Uyghur people are ongoing. The tactics employed are reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution, but the results are far more insidious because of the technology used, most of it stolen from Silicon Valley. In the words of Turkel, âCommunist China has created an open prison-like environment through the most intrusive surveillance state that the world has ever known while committing genocide and enslaving the Uyghurs on the worldâs watch.â As a human rights attorney and Uyghur activist who now serves on the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, Turkel tells his personal story to help explain the urgency and scope of the Uyghur crisis. Born in 1970 in a reeducation camp, he was lucky enough to survive and eventually make his way to the US, where he became the first Uyghur to receive an American law degree. Since then, he has worked as a prominent lawyer, activist, and spokesperson for his people and advocated strong policy responses from the liberal democracies to address atrocity crimes against his people. The Uyghur crisis is turning into the greatest human rights crisis of the twenty-first century, a systematic cleansing of an entire race of people in the millions. Part Anne Frank and Hannah Arendt, No Escape shares Turkelâs personal story while drawing back the curtain on the historically unprecedented and increasing threat from China. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562573 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Chindit: The inside story of one of World War Two's most dramatic behind-the-lines operationsSeries: #1 of Second World War VoicesAuthor: Richard Rhodes JamesNarrator: Al MurrayFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 58 minutesRelease date: April 28, 2022Genres: AsiaPublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 1943. Major-General Orde Wingate startles the military world by commanding a daring raid in the heart of Japanese-occupied Burma. But this was just the beginning. In the following year, Wingate spearheaded an even more ambitious operation, flying 10,000 men and 1,000 animals behind Japanese lines to disrupt communications and harass the Japanese forces. With close tactical support from Colonel Philip Cochran, Chindit was the name given to these operations and the men who made them happen. This is their story, told by one man who was at the heart of it all. Cipher officer Richard Rhodes James tells the story of the preparations in central India, the flights deep into enemy territory and the campaign of guerrilla operations that followed. Taking the reader through the remote wilds of the jungle, showing the parching heat and the relentless rain that these men experienced, Rhodes James paints a detailed portrait of a band of brothers fighting for survival. © Richard Rhodes James 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574455 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong KongAuthor: Louisa LimNarrator: Louisa LimFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 37 minutesRelease date: April 19, 2022Genres: AsiaPublisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR An award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger indelibly captures the place, its people, and the untold history they are claiming, just as it is being erased. The story of Hong Kong has long been dominated by competing myths: to Britain, a âbarren rockâ with no appreciable history; to China, a part of Chinese soil from time immemorial, at last returned to the ancestral fold. For decades, Hong Kongâs history was simply not taught, especially to Hong Kongers, obscuring its origins as a place of refuge and rebellion. When protests erupted in 2019 and were met with escalating suppression from Beijing, Louisa Limâraised in Hong Kong as a half-Chinese, half-English child, and now a reporter who has covered the region for nearly two decadesârealized that she was uniquely positioned to unearth the cityâs untold stories. Limâs deeply researched and personal account casts startling new light on key moments: the British takeover in 1842, the negotiations over the 1997 return to China, and the future Beijing seeks to impose. Indelible City features guerrilla calligraphers, amateur historians and archaeologists, and others who, like Lim, aim to put Hong Kongers at the center of their own story. Wending through it all is the King of Kowloon, whose iconic street art both embodied and inspired the identity of Hong Kongâa site of disappearance and reappearance, power and powerlessness, loss and reclamation.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569933 to listen full audiobooks.Title: China's Leaders: From Mao to NowAuthor: David ShambaughNarrator: Nancy WuFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 59 minutesRelease date: April 19, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: AsiaPublisher's Summary: 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. Under their leaderships, China has undergone an extraordinary transformation from an undeveloped and insular country to a comprehensive world power. In this definitive study, renowned Sinologist David Shambaugh offers a refreshing account of China's dramatic post-revolutionary history through the prism of those who ruled it. Exploring the persona, formative socialization, psychology, and professional experiences of each leader, Shambaugh shows how their differing leadership styles and tactics of rule shaped China domestically and internationally: Mao was a populist tyrant, Deng a pragmatic Leninist, Jiang a bureaucratic politician, Hu a technocratic apparatchik, and Xi a modern emperor. Covering the full scope of these leaders' personalities and power, this is an illuminating guide to China's modern history and understanding how China has become the superpower of today.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/533238 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Sisters of Mokama: The Pioneering Women Who Brought Hope and Healing to IndiaAuthor: Jyoti ThottamNarrator: Laura JenningsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 21 minutesRelease date: April 12, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1Genres: AsiaPublisher's Summary: 'Sisters of Mokama is proof that faith and courage does move mountains.'âAbraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone The never-before-told story of six intrepid Kentucky nuns, their journey to build a hospital in the poorest state in India, and the Indian nurses whose lives would never be the same New York Times editor Jyoti Thottamâs mother was part of an extraordinary group of Indian women. Born in 1946, a time when few women dared to leave their house without the protection of a man, she left home by herself at just fifteen years old and traveled to Biharâan impoverished and isolated state in northern India that had been one of the bloodiest regions of Partitionâin order to train to be a nurse under the tutelage of the determined and resourceful Appalachian nuns who ran Nazareth Hospital. Like Thottamâs motherâs journey, the hospital was a radical undertaking: it was run almost entirely by women, who insisted on giving the highest possible standard of care to everyone who walked through its doors, regardless of caste or religion. Fascinated by her motherâs story, Thottam set out to discover the full story of Nazareth Hospital, which had been established in 1947 by six nuns from Kentucky. With no knowledge of Hindi, and the awareness that they would likely never see their families again, the sisters had traveled to the small town of Mokama determined to live up to the pioneer spirit of their order, founded in the rough hills of the Kentucky frontier. A year later, they opened the doors of the hospital; soon they began taking in young Indian women as nursing students, offering them an opportunity that would change their lives. One of those women, of course, was Thottamâs mother. In Sisters of Mokama, Thottam draws upon twenty yearsâ worth of research to tell this inspiring story for the first time. She brings to life the hopes, struggles, and accomplishments of these ordinary womenâboth American and Indianâwho succeeded against the odds during the tumult and trauma of the years after World War II and Partition. Pain and loss were everywhere for the women of that time, but the collapse of the old orders provided the women of Nazareth Hospital with an openingâa chance to create for themselves lives that would never have been possible otherwise.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577813 to listen full audiobooks.Title: [German] - Der China CodeAuthor: Frank SierenNarrator: Falk WernerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 14 hours 25 minutesRelease date: April 1, 2022Genres: AsiaPublisher's Summary: China ist eine der leistungsfĂ€higsten Volkswirtschaften! Aber wie ist es dazu gekommen? Und wie wirkt sich das auf andere LĂ€nder, insbesondere Deutschland aus? Diese und viele weitere Fragen beantwortet der China-Experte Frank Sieren in 'Der China Code'. Auf unterhaltsame und informative Art und Weise zeigt Sieren seinen Leser*innen die Parallelen zwischen Deutschland und China auf. Ein interessantes Buch ĂŒber Wirtschaft, Politik und Kultur. -
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/559999 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Pakistan: A Very Short IntroductionAuthor: Pippa VirdeeNarrator: Shakira ShuteFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 4 hours 44 minutesRelease date: March 29, 2022Genres: AsiaPublisher's Summary: What is Pakistan? The name refers to a seventy-year-old post-colonial product of the bloodiest partition of territory and population that accompanied the end of British empire in South Asia. But the region of the Indus Valley has a four-thousand-year-old history, and was the site of one of the earliest and greatest riverine civilizations in the world. Although the modern nation of Pakistan as we know it was created as a homeland for the Muslims of British India, it is impossible to understand the complex tapestry of linguistic, ethnic, and cultural identities and tensions of the region without tracing its deep past. This Very Short Introduction looks at Pakistan as one of the two nation-states of the Indian sub-continent that emerged in 1947. Pippa Virdee reaches into the ancient past to demonstrate the influence of trajectories of human settlement and civilization on Pakistan's contemporary political arena, and shows how the longer continuities between the land and its peoples are as important as the short-term changes in the political landscape. She considers Pakistan's religion and society, the state and the military, everyday life, popular culture, languages and literature, as well as Pakistan's relationship with the rest of the world. Virdee also looks to the challenges of the twenty-first century and the future of Pakistan.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552312 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for VietnamAuthor: Christopher GoschaNarrator: Joe BarrettFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 16 hours 53 minutesRelease date: March 29, 2022Genres: AsiaPublisher's Summary: On May 7, 1954, when the bullets stopped and the air stilled in Dien Bien Phu, there was no doubt that Vietnam could fight a mighty colonial power and win. After nearly a decade of struggle, a nation forged in the crucible of war had achieved a victory undreamed of by any other national liberation movement. The Road to Dien Bien Phu tells the story of how Ho Chi Minh turned a ragtag guerrilla army into a modern fighting force capable of bringing down the formidable French army. Christopher Goscha shows how Ho transformed Vietnam from a decentralized guerrilla state based in the countryside to a single-party communist state shaped by a specific form of 'War Communism.' Goscha discusses how the Vietnamese operated both states through economics, trade, policing, information gathering, and communications technology. He challenges the wisdom of counterinsurgency methods developed by the French and still used by the Americans today, and explains why the First Indochina War was arguably the most brutal war of decolonization in the twentieth century, killing a million Vietnamese, most of them civilians. Panoramic in scope, The Road to Dien Bien Phu transforms our understanding of this conflict and the one the United States would later enter, and sheds new light on communist warfare and statecraft in East Asia today.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547462 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Vortex: A True Story of Historyâs Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and LiberationAuthor: Scott Carney, Jason MiklianNarrator: Vikas AdamFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 15 hours 25 minutesRelease date: March 29, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: AsiaPublisher's Summary: The deadliest storm in modern history ripped Pakistan in two and led the world to the brink of nuclear war when American and Soviet forces converged in the Bay of Bengal In November 1970, a storm set a collision course with the most densely populated coastline on Earth. Over the course of just a few hours, the Great Bhola Cyclone would kill 500,000 people and begin a chain reaction of turmoil, genocide, and war. The Vortex is the dramatic story of how that storm sparked a country to revolution. Bhola made landfall during a fragile time, when Pakistan was on the brink of a historic election. The fallout ignited a conflagration of political intrigue, corruption, violence, idealism, and bravery that played out in the lives of tens of millions of Bangladeshis. Authors Scott Carney and Jason Miklian take us deep into the story of the cyclone and its aftermath, told through the eyes of the men and women who lived through it, including the infamous president of Pakistan, General Yahya Khan, and his close friend Richard Nixon; American expats Jon and Candy Rhode; soccer star-turned-soldier Hafiz Uddin Ahmad; and a young Bengali revolutionary, Mohammed Hai. Thrillingly paced and written with incredible detail, The Vortex is not just a story about the painful birth of a new nation but also a universal tale of resilience and liberation in the face of climate emergency that affects every single person on the planet. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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