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

informative medium-paced

5.0

 appreciated the history and descriptions of Chinese and how complicated various formats of representing characters in typewriters/telegrams/digitally can be. usually i don't enjoy pop linguistic-y literature, so this surprised me (in the best way)! i thought the author did a great job presenting history and also explaining written language for those who might not have linguistics background. 

 

new life goal: somehow find my way onto the Ideographic Research Group for discussing unicode characters for chinese?! 

 

bonus: listen to the audio for the author's recitation of the classic forty four stone lions poem :) one flaw on library-borrowed audio is that i never was able to track down the companion PDF, although i didn't look THAT hard.