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portada Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Language
English
Pages
336
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
20.1x13.2x2.5 cm
Weight
0.20 kg.
ISBN13
9780735214736
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Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern

Jing Tsu (Author) · Riverhead Books · Paperback

Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern - Tsu, Jing

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Synopsis "Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern "

A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world's most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China's most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology. Kingdom of Characters follows the bold innovators who reinvented the Chinese language, among them an exiled reformer who risked a death sentence to advocate for Mandarin as a national language, a Chinese-Muslim poet who laid the groundwork for Chairman Mao's phonetic writing system, and a computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup from the floor of a jail cell. Without their advances, China might never have become the dominating force we know today. With larger-than-life characters and an unexpected perspective on the major events of China's tumultuous twentieth century, Tsu reveals how language is both a technology to be perfected and a subtle, yet potent, power to be exercised and expanded.

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