Kingdom of Characters - Jing Tsu - Libros - Penguin Putnam Inc - 9780735214736 - 17 de enero de 2023
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Jing Tsu
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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.
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Medios de comunicación Libros     Paperback Book   (Libro con tapa blanda y lomo encolado)
Publicado 17 de enero de 2023
ISBN13 9780735214736
Editores Penguin Putnam Inc
Páginas 336
Dimensiones 131 × 201 × 23 mm   ·   204 g
Lengua Inglés  

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