Kingdom Of Characters_ The Language Revolution That Made China Modern By Jing Tsu EPUB

Torrent Details

Kingdom of Characters_ The Language Revolution That Made China Modern by Jing Tsu EPUBKingdom of Characters_ The Language Revolution That Made China Modern by Jing Tsu EPUB

NAME
Kingdom of Characters_ The Language Revolution That Made China Modern by Jing Tsu EPUB.torrent
CATEGORY
eBooks
INFOHASH
23bf3c518c03d7afd9a8c4bee658309ae752b428
SIZE
11 MB in 2 files
ADDED
Uploaded on 13-02-2022 by our crawler pet called "Spidey".
SWARM
0 seeders & 0 peers
RATING
No votes yet.

Please login to vote for this torrent.


Description

xx



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



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.



xx

Discussion

Comments 0

Post Your Comment

Files in this torrent

FILENAMESIZE
free audiobook version.txt1015 B
Kingdom of Characters_ The Language Revolution That Made China Modern by Jing Tsu.epub11.4 MB

Alternative Torrents for 'Kingdom of Characters Language Revolution That Made China Modern by Jing Tsu EPUB'.

There are no alternative torrents found.