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

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

This book bestowed on its readers a wealth of knowledge, sadly the execution left room for improvement. I loved the little anecdotes and when humour shone through or odd fortuitous were mentioned. But most of the time it was just info dumping of so-and-so trying to accomplish this-and-that. In small doses this also was interesting, but most of the time I was just waiting for the invention to be finished. Imo a missed opportunity as I highly enjoyed the part about the Unicode conference where the reader saw how dedicated and passionate everyone worked and the added sense of humour served as the icing on the cake. 
It took me months to finish this book because I had to take breaks after each except the last two and a halves chapters. I do love me a good non-fiction book but it has to be compelling in its style. This only had few of those parts.