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Episode: Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern | Jing Tsu
Description: Podcast: The US-China Podcast (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern | Jing TsuPub date: 2022-06-09Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationLess than a century ago, China faced myriad challenges in catching up to a world that had passed it by technologically. In her new book, Kingdom of Charactes, Jing Tsu breaks down how the monumental and transformative task of bringing the Chinese language into the modern era also modernized China itself. Jing Tsu joi...