Kingdom of Characters - The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
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Kingdom of Characters - The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
epub | 11.49 MB | English | Isbn: 0241295858 | Author: Jing Tsu | Year: 2022
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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 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 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...
Category:History of China, Communication Reference, Academic & Commercial Writing Reference
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