Read online: Kingdom of Characters: The

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

• Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
• Jing Tsu, Jing Tsu
• Page: 336
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9780735214736
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Download eBook

Free download ebook web services Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern by Jing Tsu, Jing Tsu English version 9780735214736

Overview

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.

Other ebooks: Download Pdf Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism by read book, Online Read Ebook Toutes pour la musique read pdf, ALL ABOUT BRITAIN leer epub gratis download pdf, DELTA DE VENUS leer epub ANAIS NIN read book, {pdf download} Terres d'Arran : Orcs & Gobelins Tome 18 here, [Pdf/ePub] Seven Steeples by Sara Baume download ebook download link, {pdf download} Le mystificateur - 25 ans dans l'ombre de Bernard Tapie site,