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

Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern

Jing Tsu

336 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative mysterious medium-paced
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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 tech...

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