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我們最幸福：北韓人民的真實生活（中文版有聲書首度上市）

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

by 芭芭拉．德米克(Barbara Demick) ...

Narrated by 郭靜樺 ...

Unabridged

14 hours 7 min

☆亞馬遜讀者五星書評，授權多國語言出版，中文版銷售突破10萬冊！中文版有聲書首度上市！☆增訂版收錄芭芭拉‧德米克新寫的長篇後記：金正日辭世後，北韓依舊是兩千三百萬人民的牢籠，近萬字的內容解析金正恩如何以全世界最年輕的國家元首之姿，鞏固看似垂危的政權，並補述六名脫北者的生活現況。＝極權主義文獻開創之作＝榮獲「2010年英國年度圖書獎」入選「2011年美國國家書卷獎非文學決選作品」《我們最幸福》是描寫朝鮮生活最好的一部作品！──英國圖書獎評委芭芭拉‧德米克用一種引人注目，而又讓人難忘的方式為人們展示出這個封閉的國家，其實就是喬治‧歐威爾《1984》的現實版朝鮮向來是個外人難以深入、臆測的一個祕密國度。夜空中，整個朝鮮地區都是黑的，那黑暗訴說著人民深不可測的痛苦，有時卻又穿插著零星微弱的希望曙光……與燈光閃耀的南韓相比，北韓好似黑夜與白晝。在這裡，飢荒奪去了數百萬人的性命，製... ... Read more

$10.99 USD

☆亞馬遜讀者五星書評，授權多國語言出版，中文版銷售突破10萬冊！中文版有聲書首度上市！☆增訂版收錄芭芭拉‧德米克新寫的長篇後記：金正日辭世後，北韓依舊是兩千三百萬人民的牢籠，近萬字的內容解析金正恩如何以全世界最年輕的國家元首之姿，鞏固看似垂危的政權，並補述六名脫北者的生活現況。＝極權主義文獻開創之作＝榮獲「2010年英國年度圖書獎」入選「2011年美國國家書卷獎非文學決選作品」《我們最幸福》是描寫朝鮮生活最好的一部作品！──英國圖書獎評委芭芭拉‧德米克用一種引人注目，而又讓人難忘的方式為人們展示出這個封閉的國家，其實就是喬治‧歐威爾《1984》的現實版朝鮮向來是個外人難以深入、臆測的一個祕密國度。夜空中，整個朝鮮地區都是黑的，那黑暗訴說著人民深不可測的痛苦，有時卻又穿插著零星微弱的希望曙光……與燈光閃耀的南韓相比，北韓好似黑夜與白晝。在這裡，飢荒奪去了數百萬人的性命，製...
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Korean War

A Captivating Guide to Korean War History

by Captivating History ...

Narrated by Duke Holm ...

Unabridged

2 hours 3 min

Explore how the Korean War started, the aftermath, and the events in between!The narrative of the Korean War in the West, and particularly in the United States, tells the tale of a conflict between two global superpowers and competing ideologies in a far-flung corner of the globe.The reality is that the wheels of motion that drove the country to war in 1950 began turning long before American boots ... Read more

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Explore how the Korean War started, the aftermath, and the events in between!The narrative of the Korean War in the West, and particularly in the United States, tells the tale of a conflict between two global superpowers and competing ideologies in a far-flung corner of the globe.The reality is that the wheels of motion that drove the country to war in 1950 began turning long before American boots
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The Sister

North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the Most Dangerous Woman in the World

by Sung-Yoon Lee ...

Narrated by Dexter Galang ...

Unabridged

6 hours 44 min

This first book on Kim Jong Un’s increasingly powerful sister, tapped to be his successor, offers jaw-dropping insights into the latest generation of North Korea’s secretive and murderous dynasty.The first woman ever to issue the threat of a nuclear weapons strike is not even officially a head of state. Kim Yo Jong is the sister of North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and, as their murderous ... Read more

$24.99 USD

This first book on Kim Jong Un’s increasingly powerful sister, tapped to be his successor, offers jaw-dropping insights into the latest generation of North Korea’s secretive and murderous dynasty.The first woman ever to issue the threat of a nuclear weapons strike is not even officially a head of state. Kim Yo Jong is the sister of North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and, as their murderous
... Read more
Audiobook

In Order to Live

A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

by Yeonmi Park ...

Narrated by Eji Kim ...

Unabridged

9 hours 38 min

**“I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.” —Yeonmi Park“One of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard—and one of the most inspiring.” —The Bookseller**In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions ... Read more

$20.00 USD

**“I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.” —Yeonmi Park“One of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard—and one of the most inspiring.” —The Bookseller**In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions
... Read more
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Korean War

The War between North Korea and South Korean in the 1950s

by Kelly Mass ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Morgan G ...

Unabridged

41 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A war between North and South Korea, referred to as the Korean War, was waged from June twenty-fifth, 1950, to July twenty-seventh, 1953. On June 25th, 1950, North Korea attacked South Korea after a series of border fights and South Korean uprisings.Both China and the Soviet Union supported North Korea, which was backed by the United Nations, while the ... Read more

$3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A war between North and South Korea, referred to as the Korean War, was waged from June twenty-fifth, 1950, to July twenty-seventh, 1953. On June 25th, 1950, North Korea attacked South Korea after a series of border fights and South Korean uprisings.Both China and the Soviet Union supported North Korea, which was backed by the United Nations, while the
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Brief History of North & South Korea 2 in 1, A

The History, Conflict, and Contrasts Between Two Nations Sharing One Name

by Dominic Haynes ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Archie G ...

Unabridged

8 hours 28 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.One peninsula. Two nations. A story of division, survival, and astonishing transformation.Confused by the endless headlines about Korea but still feel like you don’t really understand how it all began? Frustrated by the lack of clear, accessible resources that explain both North Korea's secrecy and South Korea's global rise?This concise, engaging 2-in ... Read more

$15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.One peninsula. Two nations. A story of division, survival, and astonishing transformation.Confused by the endless headlines about Korea but still feel like you don’t really understand how it all began? Frustrated by the lack of clear, accessible resources that explain both North Korea's secrecy and South Korea's global rise?This concise, engaging 2-in
... Read more
Audiobook

History of Korea

by Introbooks Team ...

Narrated by Andrea Giordani ...

Unabridged

45 min

With a history so vast it is difficult to preserve the traditions and cultures from the olden times yet Korea seems to have maintained it despite the many invasions and situations that it went through. Nationalism and patriotism is reflected in all the Koreans.Every country has their own mythology and belief of how their people came to be and Koreans have their too. The Korean mythology speaks of ... Read more

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With a history so vast it is difficult to preserve the traditions and cultures from the olden times yet Korea seems to have maintained it despite the many invasions and situations that it went through. Nationalism and patriotism is reflected in all the Koreans.Every country has their own mythology and belief of how their people came to be and Koreans have their too. The Korean mythology speaks of
... Read more
Audiobook

The Reluctant Communist

My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea

by Charles Robert Jenkins ...

Narrated by John McLain ...

Unabridged

7 hours

In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old U.S. Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing sentry along the world's most heavily militarized border. He believed his action would get him back to the States and a short jail sentence. Instead he found himself in another sort of prison, where ... Read more

$19.99 USD

In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old U.S. Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing sentry along the world's most heavily militarized border. He believed his action would get him back to the States and a short jail sentence. Instead he found himself in another sort of prison, where
... Read more
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Starry Field

A Memoir of Lost History

by Margaret Juhae Lee ...

Narrated by Michelle H. Lee ...

Unabridged

7 hours 32 min

As a young girl growing up in Houston, Margaret Juhae Lee never heard about her grandfather, Lee Chul Ha. His history was lost in early twentieth-century Korea, and guarded by Margaret's grandmother, who Chul Ha left widowed in 1936 with two young sons. To his surviving family, Lee Chul Ha was a criminal, and his granddaughter was determined to figure out why.Starry Field chronicles Chul Ha's ... Read more

$19.99 USD

As a young girl growing up in Houston, Margaret Juhae Lee never heard about her grandfather, Lee Chul Ha. His history was lost in early twentieth-century Korea, and guarded by Margaret's grandmother, who Chul Ha left widowed in 1936 with two young sons. To his surviving family, Lee Chul Ha was a criminal, and his granddaughter was determined to figure out why.Starry Field chronicles Chul Ha's
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North Korea's Hidden Revolution

How the Information Underground is Transforming a Closed Society

by Jieun Baek ...

Narrated by Caroline McLaughlin ...

Unabridged

7 hours 31 min

One of the least understood countries in the world, North Korea has long been known for its repressive regime. Yet it is far from being an impenetrable black box. Media flows covertly into the country, and fault lines are appearing in the government's sealed informational borders. Drawing on deeply personal interviews with North Korean defectors from all walks of life, ranging from propaganda ... Read more

$16.99 USD

One of the least understood countries in the world, North Korea has long been known for its repressive regime. Yet it is far from being an impenetrable black box. Media flows covertly into the country, and fault lines are appearing in the government's sealed informational borders. Drawing on deeply personal interviews with North Korean defectors from all walks of life, ranging from propaganda
... Read more
Audiobook

Fallout

The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm North Korea

by Joel S. Wit ...

Narrated by Christopher Douyard ...

Unabridged

15 hours 23 min

For almost four decades, the United States has tried to stop North Korea's attempts to build nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them. Joel S. Wit, a former State Department official, takes listeners to the front lines of nuclear negotiations and to fierce policy debates and secret diplomatic gambits, recounting how perilously close the United States and North Korea have come, on various ... Read more

$24.99 USD

For almost four decades, the United States has tried to stop North Korea's attempts to build nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them. Joel S. Wit, a former State Department official, takes listeners to the front lines of nuclear negotiations and to fierce policy debates and secret diplomatic gambits, recounting how perilously close the United States and North Korea have come, on various
... Read more
Audiobook

De wereld volgens Noord-Korea

by Remco Breuker ...

Narrated by Remco Breuker ...

Unabridged

5 hours 52 min

Het nieuws dat Noord-Koreaanse militairen aan Russische zijde vochten in Oekraïne kwam in 2024 voor velen als een verrassing. Noord-Korea is toch die in zichzelf gekeerde dictatuur waar op grote schaal mensenrechten worden geschonden? Maar het land blijkt juist ook in het buitenland grote ambities te hebben en zijn greep op de wereld te willen versterken.Noord-Koreakenner Remco Breuker legt uit ... Read more

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Het nieuws dat Noord-Koreaanse militairen aan Russische zijde vochten in Oekraïne kwam in 2024 voor velen als een verrassing. Noord-Korea is toch die in zichzelf gekeerde dictatuur waar op grote schaal mensenrechten worden geschonden? Maar het land blijkt juist ook in het buitenland grote ambities te hebben en zijn greep op de wereld te willen versterken.Noord-Koreakenner Remco Breuker legt uit
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Audiobook

K-Drama School

A Pop Culture Inquiry into Why We Love Korean Television

by Grace Jung ...

Narrated by Grace Jung ...

Unabridged

9 hours 6 min

From the Emmy Award-winning Squid Game to streaming sensations like The Glory and Crash Landing on You, Korean television has emerged onto the global pop culture scene as compelling television**—**but what exactly makes these shows so irresistibly bingeable? And what can we learn about our societies and ourselves from watching them?From stand-up comedian and media studies PhD Grace Jung comes a ... Read more

$27.99 USD

From the Emmy Award-winning Squid Game to streaming sensations like The Glory and Crash Landing on You, Korean television has emerged onto the global pop culture scene as compelling television**—**but what exactly makes these shows so irresistibly bingeable? And what can we learn about our societies and ourselves from watching them?From stand-up comedian and media studies PhD Grace Jung comes a
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Audiobook

Explore North Korea

by Introbooks Team ...

Narrated by Andrea Giordani ...

Unabridged

30 min

Baekdu spa, hyongje falls, pegae hill, and the chiangbbai mountain range, are world class attractions that lures in millions of tourists, historians, and explorers to visit North Korea year after year. The number of historically famous destinations, museums, parks and the recreational facilities available in North Korea can only astound the audience all in all. With flamboyant historical feats ... Read more

$3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Baekdu spa, hyongje falls, pegae hill, and the chiangbbai mountain range, are world class attractions that lures in millions of tourists, historians, and explorers to visit North Korea year after year. The number of historically famous destinations, museums, parks and the recreational facilities available in North Korea can only astound the audience all in all. With flamboyant historical feats
... Read more
Audiobook

Arirang: The Prophecy (Korean Audiobook)

by Homer B. Hulbert ...

Narrated by Dong Hyeun Lee ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Arirang Chronicles
Unabridged

39 min

A Korean-language edition of the Arirang Chronicles series.Produced by AudioPub and distributed worldwide by K-Towns Publishing.In 1896, an American heard Arirang rising from the voices of Korean children. Homer B. Hulbert transcribed the song into Western notation and later wrote that the emotional force hidden within the Korean people would one day astonish the world. More than a century before ... Read more

$7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A Korean-language edition of the Arirang Chronicles series.Produced by AudioPub and distributed worldwide by K-Towns Publishing.In 1896, an American heard Arirang rising from the voices of Korean children. Homer B. Hulbert transcribed the song into Western notation and later wrote that the emotional force hidden within the Korean people would one day astonish the world. More than a century before
... Read more
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Северная Корея: прошлое и настоящее закрытого государства

by Иван Захарченко ...

Narrated by Иван Захарченко ...

Series series Новый мировой порядок
Unabridged

5 hours 42 min

Интерес к Корейской Народно-Демократической Республике питает устоявшийся в ее отношении стереотип как самой закрытой страны в мире, хотя есть немало примеров, когда туристы даже западных стран хвастали тем, что им удалось там побывать. Значит закрытой северокорейское государство уже не назовешь. А после закрытия границ с 2020 года в глобальном масштабе из-за страха перед COVID-19 и другие страны ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Интерес к Корейской Народно-Демократической Республике питает устоявшийся в ее отношении стереотип как самой закрытой страны в мире, хотя есть немало примеров, когда туристы даже западных стран хвастали тем, что им удалось там побывать. Значит закрытой северокорейское государство уже не назовешь. А после закрытия границ с 2020 года в глобальном масштабе из-за страха перед COVID-19 и другие страны
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Audiobook

Inside North Korea

A BBC Radio Documentary Collection

by Becky Milligan, David Torrance, Sara Jane Hall ...

Narrated by Becky Milligan, David Torrance, Jonathan Griffin, Natalia Zuo, Matthew Bannister ...

Unabridged

7 hours 25 min

A compelling collection of programmes exploring one of the world's most repressive and dangerous nationsThe Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a highly secretive totalitarian state - and one that poses an increasing threat to the West due to its rapidly expanding nuclear weapons programme. This unique 3-part collection takes an in-depth look at the country, encompassing its history, the ... Read more

$19.99 USD

A compelling collection of programmes exploring one of the world's most repressive and dangerous nationsThe Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a highly secretive totalitarian state - and one that poses an increasing threat to the West due to its rapidly expanding nuclear weapons programme. This unique 3-part collection takes an in-depth look at the country, encompassing its history, the
... Read more
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The Other Great Game

The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia

by Sheila Miyoshi Jager ...

Narrated by Kathleen Li ...

Unabridged

20 hours 21 min

In the nineteenth century, Russia participated in two "great games": one, pitted the tsar's empire against Britain in Central Asia. The other, saw Russia, China, and Japan vying for domination of the Korean Peninsula. In this eye-opening account, Sheila Miyoshi Jager argues that the contest over Korea, driven both by Korean domestic disputes and by great-power rivalry, set the course for the ... Read more

$29.99 USD

In the nineteenth century, Russia participated in two "great games": one, pitted the tsar's empire against Britain in Central Asia. The other, saw Russia, China, and Japan vying for domination of the Korean Peninsula. In this eye-opening account, Sheila Miyoshi Jager argues that the contest over Korea, driven both by Korean domestic disputes and by great-power rivalry, set the course for the
... Read more
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Storm Clouds over the Pacific, 1931-1941

by Peter Harmsen ...

Narrated by Walter Dixon ...

Series series War in the Far East
Unabridged

9 hours 4 min

War in the Far East is a trilogy of books offering the most complete narrative yet written about the Pacific Theater of World War II, and the first truly international treatment of the epic conflict. Historian Peter Harmsen weaves together a complex and revealing narrative, including facets of the war that are often overlooked in historic narratives. He explores the war in subarctic conditions on ... Read more

$19.99 USD

War in the Far East is a trilogy of books offering the most complete narrative yet written about the Pacific Theater of World War II, and the first truly international treatment of the epic conflict. Historian Peter Harmsen weaves together a complex and revealing narrative, including facets of the war that are often overlooked in historic narratives. He explores the war in subarctic conditions on
... Read more
Audiobook

Asian Armageddon, 1944-45

by Peter Harmsen ...

Narrated by Walter Dixon ...

Series series War in the Far East
Unabridged

8 hours 24 min

The last installment of the War in the Far East trilogy, Asian Armageddon 1944–1945, continues and completes the narrative of the first two volumes, describing how a US-led coalition of nations battled Japan into submission through a series of cataclysmic encounters. Leyte Gulf, the biggest naval battle ever, was testimony to the paramount importance of controlling the ocean, as was the fact that ... Read more

$19.99 USD

The last installment of the War in the Far East trilogy, Asian Armageddon 1944–1945, continues and completes the narrative of the first two volumes, describing how a US-led coalition of nations battled Japan into submission through a series of cataclysmic encounters. Leyte Gulf, the biggest naval battle ever, was testimony to the paramount importance of controlling the ocean, as was the fact that
... Read more
Audiobook

Корея. Власть, идеология, культура

by Константин Асмолов ...

Narrated by Константин Асмолов, Евгений Шокин ...

Series series Экономические миры
Unabridged

10 hours 51 min

Контраст в восприятии Северной и Южной Кореи тесно связан со стереотипами, сложившимися в мировом сознании за десятилетия разделения Корейского полуострова. Медийный дисбаланс в представлении образов двух государств загоняет обывателя в ловушку черно-белого мышления, где Северная Корея – «тиранический режим», а Южная – «рай глобализации». Но за расхожими штампами скрывается живая и противоречивая ... Read more

$16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Контраст в восприятии Северной и Южной Кореи тесно связан со стереотипами, сложившимися в мировом сознании за десятилетия разделения Корейского полуострова. Медийный дисбаланс в представлении образов двух государств загоняет обывателя в ловушку черно-белого мышления, где Северная Корея – «тиранический режим», а Южная – «рай глобализации». Но за расхожими штампами скрывается живая и противоречивая
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A Christmas Far from Home

An Epic Tale of Courage and Survival during the Korean War

by Stanley Weintraub ...

Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

Unabridged

6 hours 54 min

From an acclaimed historian comes the dramatic story of the Christmas escape of thousands of American troops overwhelmingly surrounded by the enemy in Korea's harsh terrain.Just before Thanksgiving in 1950, five months into the Korean War, General MacArthur flew to American positions in the north and grandly announced an "end-the-war-by-Christmas" offensive despite recent intervention by Mao's ... Read more

$19.95 USD

From an acclaimed historian comes the dramatic story of the Christmas escape of thousands of American troops overwhelmingly surrounded by the enemy in Korea's harsh terrain.Just before Thanksgiving in 1950, five months into the Korean War, General MacArthur flew to American positions in the north and grandly announced an "end-the-war-by-Christmas" offensive despite recent intervention by Mao's
... Read more
Audiobook

The Korean War: History in an Hour

by Andrew Mulholland ...

Narrated by Jonathan Keeble ...

Unabridged

2 hours 16 min

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Bringing together the military mights of the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United Nations States, the Korean War raged for three years from 1950 to 1953. Not only the result of a carving of Korean territories following the Pacific conflicts of the Second World War, it was also a battle of ideologies ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Bringing together the military mights of the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United Nations States, the Korean War raged for three years from 1950 to 1953. Not only the result of a carving of Korean territories following the Pacific conflicts of the Second World War, it was also a battle of ideologies
... Read more
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К северу от 38 параллели: Как живут в КНДР

by Андрей Ланьков ...

Narrated by Стефан Барковский ...

Unabridged

17 hours 20 min

Северная Корея, все еще невероятно засекреченная, перестает быть для мира "черным ящиком". Похоже, радикальный социальный эксперимент, который был начат там в 1940-х годах, подходит к концу. А за ним стоят судьбы людей — бесчисленное количество жизней. О том, как эти жизни были прожиты и что происходит в стране сейчас, рассказывает известный востоковед и публицист Андрей Ланьков. Автору ... Read more

$8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Северная Корея, все еще невероятно засекреченная, перестает быть для мира "черным ящиком". Похоже, радикальный социальный эксперимент, который был начат там в 1940-х годах, подходит к концу. А за ним стоят судьбы людей — бесчисленное количество жизней. О том, как эти жизни были прожиты и что происходит в стране сейчас, рассказывает известный востоковед и публицист Андрей Ланьков. Автору
... Read more

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