Asia Audio & Video

Lyrical and witty, tragic and deliriously romantic, Running in the Family is an inspired marriage of travel narrative and family memoir by one of our most poetic writers.

NPR's Beijing correspondent Rob Gifford recounts his travels along Route 312, the Chinese Mother road, the longest route in the world's most populous nation.

Start speaking Japanese in minutes, and grasp the language, culture and customs in just minutes more with Survival Phrases - Japanese, a completely new way to travel with confidence! Survival Phrases.

Without bothering to get approval from the President, the State Department, or even the FTC...

In 1862 Anna Leonowens accepted an offer made by the Siamese consul in Singapore, Tan Kim Ching, to teach the wives and children of Mongkut, king of Siam.

Bangkok is a city that is at the leading edge of Asia yet still somehow stuck in the past. It is a place of contrasts: ancient temples neighbour internet cafes, luxury automobiles compete…

Start speaking Japanese in minutes, and grasp the language, culture and customs in just minutes more with Survival Phrases - Japanese, a completely new way to travel with confidence! Survival Phrases.

Non-fiction collection of Maugham's observations of life in Asia in the early 20th Century.

In Ankara, learn about ancient capitals of the great Anatolian civilizations, including the complex culture of Catalhoyuk.

East by West: a Journey in the Recess is an account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East during the parliamentary recess in 1883.