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Kingdom of Characters - A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China (Paperback)
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Kingdom of Characters - A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China (Paperback)
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A riveting, masterfully researched account of the bold innovators
who adapted the Chinese language to the modern world, transforming
China into a superpower in the process What does it take to
reinvent the world's oldest living language? China today is one of
the world's most powerful nations, yet just a century ago it was a
crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, left
behind in the wake of Western technology. In Kingdom of Characters,
Jing Tsu shows that China's most daunting challenge was a
linguistic one: to make the formidable Chinese language - a
2,200-year-old writing system that was daunting to natives and
foreigners alike - accessible to a globalized, digital world.
Kingdom of Characters follows the bold innovators who adapted the
Chinese script - and the value-system it represents - to the
technological advances that would shape the twentieth century and
beyond, from the telegram to the typewriter to the smartphone. From
the exiled reformer who risked death to advocate for Mandarin as a
national language to the imprisoned computer engineer who devised
input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup,
generations of scholars, missionaries, librarians, politicians,
inventors, nationalists and revolutionaries alike understood the
urgency of their task and its world-shaping consequences. With
larger-than-life characters and a thrilling narrative, Kingdom of
Characters offers an astonishingly original perspective on one of
the twentieth century's most dramatic transformations.
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