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

ISBN: 0735214735

ISBN13: 9780735214736

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

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PULITZER 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 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...

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