A review by matt00794
Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern by Jing Tsu

4.0

So I would give the audio book a three probably but the book itself is really good. Because it’s about language and how to write and form it’s hard to understand in some parts luckily there’s a pdf with some photos and pictures but still I think the physical book would be better. Another kind of issue I had is this is a really narrative driven book and I just have issues with that in audio form so it’s more of a me thing but again I think I would have liked the physical book also if your bad with names like I am this might be a hard audio book. On to the positives this is a really interesting story with the gradual modernization of written Chinese and partially the history of Mandarin and Cantonese. Unlike English Chinese characters were built of parts often times to look like the thing itself thus there were no letters but 1000s of potential parts. I haven’t tried it out but i highly recommend the physical book.