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Over the past four decades, China's remarkable transformation has garnered admiration but also sparked concern. George Magnus draws on his intimate knowledge of this dynamic nation to uncover the origins of its ascent and show why the economic traps it faces at home and the political challenges it faces abroad pose a serious threat to its continued rise. 

For the first time in any modern language, a female scholar and translator reimagines The Art of War. Sun Tzu’s ancient book of strategy and psychology has as much to tell us today as when it was first written 2,500 years ago. In a world full of surprising turns, his rules for anticipating the...

A stagecoach containing a microcosm of French society seek to escape to Le Havre during the Prussian war. Stopping at an inn along the way, they soon realize they have blundered into Prussian occupied territory. The travelers are not allowed to leave until one woman, a prostitute known as Boule de Suif, (literally suet dumpling, or ball of fat), sleeps with the commanding officer. This turn of events is met with universal indignation by the travelers. But as the days stretch out, everyone’s true colors are revealed.

For three decades after Mao's death in 1976, China's leaders adopted a restrained approach to foreign policy. To facilitate the country's inexorable economic ascendance, and to prevent a backlash, they reassured the outside world of China's peaceful intentions. Then, as Susan Shirk shows, something changed. China went from fragile superpower to global heavyweight. Combining her decades of research and experience, Shirk, one of the world's most respected experts on Chinese politics, argues that we are now fully embroiled in a new cold war.

There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other. In his latest entertaining and thought...

In The Silk Road, Valerie Hansen describes the remarkable archaeological finds that revolutionize our understanding of these trade routes. The Silk Road is a fascinating story of archaeological discovery, cultural transmission, and the intricate chains across Central Asia and China. 

As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War. As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has...

In this Pulitzer Prize–winning biography, Barbara Tuchman explores American relations with China through the experiences of one of our men on the ground. In the cantankerous but level-headed “Vinegar Joe,” Tuchman found a subject who allowed her to perform, in the words of the National...

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China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presence, and the Chinese "economic miracle". It seems to be a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the world's most futuristic cities, heir to an ancient civilization that is still trying to find a modern identity. This Very Short Introduction audiobook offers the listener an entry to understanding the world's most populous nation, giving an integrated picture of modern Chinese society, culture, economy, politics, and art. 

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Paul French's Midnight in Peking, a gripping, true murder mystery story read by the actor Crawford Logan. Who killed Pamela Werner? On a frozen night in January 1937, in the dying days of colonial Peking, a body was found under the haunted...

Brought to you by Penguin. When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen shows, it was the year 1000, when for the first time new trade routes linked the entire globe, so an object could in...

Frontier opens with the story of Liujin, a young woman heading out on her own to create her own life in Pebble Town, a somewhat surreal place at the base of Snow Mountain where wolves roam the streets and certain enlightened individuals can see and enter a paradisaical garden. Exploring life in this city (or in the frontier) through the viewpoint of a dozen different characters, some simple, some profound, Can Xue's latest novel attempts to unify the grand opposites of life

تتبع صعود وسقوط السلالات الإمبراطورية في رحلة تاريخية ملحمية عبر أربعة آلاف عام من الصراعات والثورات الكبرى. عبر سرد آسر، تتكشف أمامك التحولات السياسية...

从帝国兴衰的权力博弈到近现代革命的制度崩塌，这段两小时的极简历史之旅将为你重建四千年文明演进的宏大脉络。无论你是在碎片化的通勤途中，还是在渴望拓展思维的安静深夜，这种平实清晰、客观理性的叙事节奏，都...

استكشف أعظم مشروع عسكري في التاريخ البشري، حيث تروي الحجارة صراعات الإمبراطوريات وهواجس البقاء على الحدود المشتعلة. اجعل رحلة تنقلك اليومية مغامرة ملحمية تأخذك...

一场震惊世界的考古发掘，不仅重现了秦帝国规模空前的地下武装军团，更将权力、生死与两千年的匠人血泪赤裸裸地推到我们面前。当你穿行于早晚通勤的喧嚣中，这段浓缩为两小时的沉浸式历史之旅，将带你重返那个战马...

عش تفاصيل الصراع الأيديولوجي الذي زلزل مجتمعا بأكمله، في رحلة تاريخية وسياسية تشرح كيف تحولت الشعارات إلى فوضى عارمة. استمتع بتجربة استماع عميقة ومثيرة للتفكير...

يقف جيش من الطين في ظلام الأبدية ليحرس إمبراطوراً مهووساً بالخلود، ليروي قصة توحيد دموية وبناء أعظم إمبراطورية صينية. يأخذك هذا السرد التاريخي الملحمي في رحلة...

Beleef vierduizend jaar wereldgeschiedenis waarin machtige dynastieën en bloedige revoluties een keizerrijk smeden. Maak van je dagelijkse woon-werkverkeer een meeslepende tijdreis langs uitgestrekte verdedigingsmuren en mythische veldslagen. Deze fascinerende verkenning onthult de meedogenloze...