Kingdom of Characters (Pulitzer Prize Finalist): The Language Revolution That Made China Modern

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Kingdom of Characters (Pulitzer Prize Finalist): The Language Revolution That Made China ModernPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST 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 worlds 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 Chinas most daunting challenge was a

Tsu reveals how language is both a technology to be perfected and a subtle

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