Kingdom of characters : the language revolution that made China modern / Jing Tsu.
Kingdom of characters : the language revolution that made China modern / Jing Tsu.
Kingdom of characters : the language revolution that made China modern / Jing Tsu.
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New York : Riverhead Books, 2022.
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G 2021/2992
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English
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Physical content
xix, 314 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
A Mandarin in revolution (1900) -- Chinese typewriters and America (1912) -- Tipping the scale of telegraphy (1925) -- The librarian's card catalog (1938) -- When "Peking" became "Beijing" (1958) -- Entering into the computer (1979) -- The digital sinosphere (2020).
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Publisher
New York : Riverhead Books, 2022.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2022.
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"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...
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Kingdom of characters : the language revolution that made China modern / Jing Tsu.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2022
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G 2021/2992
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74VKarWdPzDO
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ISBN
0735214727
9780735214729
DDC
495.111
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991024444014502626
