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Tsu, Jing.
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Chinese characters -- History -- 20th century.
Chinese language -- Writing -- History -- 20th century.
Chinese language -- Modern Chinese, 1919.
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Tsu, Jing.
Chinese characters -- History -- 20th century.
Chinese language -- Writing -- History -- 20th century.
Chinese language -- Modern Chinese, 1919.
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Kingdom of
characters
: the language revolution that made China modern / Jing Tsu.
by
Tsu, Jing.
Riverhead Books, 2022.
Call #:
495.109 T882k
Subjects
Chinese
characters
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Chinese
language
--
Writing
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Chinese
language
--
Modern
Chinese
, 1919.
ISBN:
9780735214729 (hc.)
Description:
xix, 314 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-304) and index.
Summary:
"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. In Kingdom of
Characters
, Jing Tsu argues that China's greatest and most daunting challenge was a linguistic one. Just as important as China's technological and industrial advances and political maneuvers was the century-long fight to make the
Chinese
language-with its many dialects and complex character-based script-accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology. Kingdom of
Characters
follows the bold and cunning innovators who adapted the
Chinese
language to a world defined by the West and its alphabet: the exiled reformer who risked a death sentence to advocate for Mandarin as a national language, the
Chinese
Muslim poet who laid the groundwork for Chairman Mao's phonetic writing system, the imprisoned computer engineer who devised input codes for
Chinese
characters
on the lid of a tea cup, among others. Without the advances they enabled, China might never have become the dominating force we know today. The revolution of the
Chinese
script is just as breathtaking as China's transformation into a capitalist juggernaut, in large part because those linguistic innovations literally enabled China's reinvention. 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"--From publisher.
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Adult Nonfiction
495.109 T882k
Core Collection - Adult
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