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Mandarin, IA: The Complete Course (currently listening to…)
Recorded Books, 2000
7 Hours 54 Minutes

Mandarin, IA: The Complete Course

This comprehensive beginner course consists of Part A and B. At the end of Part B, you will have reached high beginner conversation level.

Mandarin, IB: The Complete Course (in queue)
Recorded Books, 2000
8 Hours 38 Minutes

Mandarin, IA: The Complete Course

From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History (Part 3) Finished 11/2006
Taught by Kenneth J. Hammond
New Mexico State University
Ph.D., Harvard University

From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History

Kenneth J. Hammond is Associate Professor of History and Head of the History Department at New Mexico State University. He received his B.A. from Kent State University and received his graduate degrees from Harvard, earning his A.M. in East Asian Regional Studies and his Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages.

Dr. Hammond has received numerous grants and fellowships, including a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies to work with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, and an Affiliated Fellowship at the International Institute for Asian Studies at Leiden, the Netherlands. Professor Hammond is past president of the Society for Ming Studies and has served on the Board of Directors of the Southwest Association for Asian Studies.

Chinese (Mandarin) The Short Course (Finished 10/2006)
Pimsleur Language Program
Recorded Books, 2001
4 Hours 17 Minutes

At the completion of these eight lessons you should be able to comfortably understand and speak Chinese (Mandarin) at a beginner level.

From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History (Part 2) Finished 10/2006
Taught by Kenneth J. Hammond
New Mexico State University
Ph.D., Harvard University

From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History

The Search for Modern China (Pt.1) (on hold)
by Jonathan D. Spence
Blackstone Audiobooks

Jonathan D. Spence is a historian specializing in Chinese history. He is Sterling Professor of History at Yale. The Search for Modern China, his most famous book, has in recent years become one of the standard texts on modern Chinese history.

Hudson Taylor: The Man Who Believed God (finished 9/2006)
by Marshall Broomhall
Blackstone Audiobooks

J. Hudson Taylor (1832-1905) was an English missionary to China who founded the China Inland Mission. At his death ICM supported 205 mission stations, 800 missionaries, 125,000 Chinese Christians.

Mao: The Unknown Story (finished 8/2006)
by Jung Chang & Jon Halliday
Books on Tape