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Kingdom of Characters

Jing Tsu
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30/01/2023
135,90 zł
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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.

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Dane bibliograficzne / Bibliographic info
Rodzaj (nośnik) / Type of product książka / book
Dział / Department Książki i czasopisma / Books and periodicals
Autor / Author Jing Tsu
Tytuł / Title Kingdom of Characters
Język / Language angielski
Wydawca / Publisher Allen Lane
Rok wydania / Published in year 2022
Rodzaj oprawy / Binding type Twarda z obwolutą
Wymiary / Size 16.0x24.0
Liczba stron / Number of pages 316
Ciężar / Weight 0.54 kg
   
ISBN 9780241295854 (9780241295854)
EAN/UPC 9780241295854
Stan produktu / Condition nowy / new - sprzedajemy wyłącznie nowe nieużywane produkty
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Nośnik Oprawa Rok wydania Dostępność Pokaż
książka / book (j. angielski) Miękka 2023 Niedostępna [pokaż]

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