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Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern

by Jing Tsu

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 linguis

Publisher

Riverhead Books

Publication date

Jan 17, 2023

Format

Print edition

Pages

336

ISBN

9780735214736