KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS: THE LANGUAGE REVOLUTION THAT MADE CHINA MODERN
By Jing Tsu
Synopsis
Kingdom of Characters follows the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese script - and the value-system it represents - to the technological advances that would shape the 20th century and beyond, from the telegram to the typewriter to the smartphone. From the exiled reformer who risked death to advocate for Mandarin as a national language to the imprisoned computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup, generations of scholars, missionaries, librarians, politicians, inventors, nationalists and revolutionaries alike understood the urgency of their task and its world-shaping consequences.
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| Narrator | Jing Tsu |
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| Length | 11hrs 30mins |
| Catalogue No. | 16129 |
| Publisher | Penguin Audio; 2022 |