Kingdom of Characters
Jing Tsu
Kingdom of Characters
Jing Tsu
- Wydawnictwo: Allen Lane
- Rok wydania: 2022
- ISBN: 978-0-241-29585-4
- Ilość stron: 316
- Format: 16.0 x 24.0 cm
- Oprawa: Twarda z obwolutą
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Opis: Kingdom of Characters - Jing Tsu
What does it take to reinvent the world's oldest living language?
China today is one of the world's most powerful nations, yet just a
century ago it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the
elite few, left behind in the wake of Western technology. In Kingdom of
Characters, Jing Tsu shows that China's most daunting challenge was a
linguistic one: to make the formidable Chinese language - a
2,200-year-old writing system that was daunting to natives and
foreigners alike - accessible to a globalized, digital world.
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 twentieth 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.
With larger-than-life characters and a thrilling narrative, Kingdom of
Characters offers an astonishingly original perspective on one of the
twentieth century's most dramatic transformations.
Szczegóły: Kingdom of Characters - Jing Tsu
Tytuł: Kingdom of Characters
Autor: Jing Tsu
Wydawnictwo: Allen Lane
Kod paskowy: 9780241295854
ISBN: 978-0-241-29585-4
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2022
Ilość stron: 316
Format: 16.0 x 24.0 cm
Oprawa: Twarda z obwolutą
Waga: 0.54 kg