Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession and Genius in Modern China
Jing Tsu
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Год издания: 2022
Язык: Английский
STUART KELLY, THE SCOTSMAN (UK)
"I was more than delighted to read Jing Tsu's incredibly fascinating book ... As Jing Tsu eloquently shows, from typewriters to telegrams to digitisation there has been a paradox at the centre of China's infrastructure ... Jing Tsu makes an important point that Chinese has a vast number of tonal variations and homophones. She quotes, brilliantly ... The book would be dry if it were not for the cast of characters. We meet engineers, novelists, monks, rogues, brave librarians, imprisoned geniuses. It humanises what might seem like a fringe concern. It also gives the reader insight into the geopolitical dilemmas around what was once brush-marks on paper ... Jing Tsu's book may be as prophetic as it is historical."
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