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A review by latad_books
Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern by Jing Tsu
4.0
This was a fascinating look at China's relatively recent past (from the end of the Opium Wars and Boxer Rebellions) to the present day, through its bid to keep pace with the progress of communication technology worldwide for trade and other purposes.
A number of clever people devoted themselves from that period to ongoing efforts currently. analyzing the huge set of written characters that required years of study and practice to master to determine ways in which Chinese speakers could quickly communicate across the country, and worldwide.
For those of us who use a 26-character alphabet, it's perhaps not that easy to understand the efforts various linguists, librarians, scholars and others went through but each of their achievements is pretty outstanding.
A number of clever people devoted themselves from that period to ongoing efforts currently. analyzing the huge set of written characters that required years of study and practice to master to determine ways in which Chinese speakers could quickly communicate across the country, and worldwide.
For those of us who use a 26-character alphabet, it's perhaps not that easy to understand the efforts various linguists, librarians, scholars and others went through but each of their achievements is pretty outstanding.