{"id":12066,"date":"2021-05-13T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12066"},"modified":"2021-05-12T10:29:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T15:29:48","slug":"historical-tales-with-chinese-roots-read-with-your-ears-this-week-audiobooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12066","title":{"rendered":"Historical tales with Chinese roots – read with your ears this week! (audiobooks)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Time to download this week’s free audiobooks from SYNC<\/a> so you can read with your ears!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember that although these complete audiobooks are only available from Thursday through Wednesday, you have free use of them on your device as long as you keep them on Sora shelf – more info here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Descendant of the Crane<\/strong><\/em> (download free – May 13-19, 2021)
by Joan He<\/a> | Read by Nancy Wu<\/a>
Published by Dreamscape<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suddenly ascending to the throne when her father dies, Princess Hesina’s search for his murderer puts the young woman in contact with her soon-to-be subjects outside the palace walls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is the soothsayer’s forbidden magic telling the truth? Will the secrets of investigator Akira endanger them both?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monkey<\/strong><\/em> (download free May 13-19, 2021)
by Wu Ch’\u00eang-\u00ean, Arthur Waley [Trans.]<\/a> | Read by Kenneth Williams<\/a>
Published by Naxos Audiobooks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This 16th century Chinese classic includes demons, gods, and spirits who stand in the way of a priest traveling West to acquire sacred Buddhist texts for his emperor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Su Wukong, the Monkey King himself, accompanies the priest on his long journey in this abridged version translated into English in 1942 and recently recorded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What tales reflecting China are your favorites?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Time to download this week’s free audiobooks from SYNC so you can read with your ears! Remember that although these complete audiobooks are only available from Thursday through Wednesday, you have free use of them on your device as long as you keep them on Sora shelf – more info here. Descendant of the Crane […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,19,30,51],"tags":[90,127,22,7,100,11,20,5,70,37,16,18,40,38,49,184,31,15,206,217,21,35,33,3,308,6,8,28],"class_list":["post-12066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","category-legends","category-mystery","tag-abandonment","tag-audiobooks","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-china","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-magic","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-non-us-author","tag-relationships","tag-religion","tag-royalty","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-translation","tag-travel","tag-us-author","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12066"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12073,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12066\/revisions\/12073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}