Kingdom of Characters

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At the turn of the twentieth century, China faced an existential crisis. As global trade, telegraphy, typewriters, and early computing rapidly expanded, Western nations declared Chinese characters obsolete. Critics asserted that China could never modernize unless it abandoned its thousand-year-old writing system in favor of the Latin alphabet. Yet a visionary group of linguists, librarians, engineers, and political activists refused to surrender their heritage.

Jing Tsu brings these unsung pioneers to vibrant life: an exiled reformer who risked death to champion a national spoken dialect, a rebellious poet who paved the path for Pinyin phonetics, and a brilliant engineer who drafted computer input codes on a teacup lid from the floor of a prison cell. Their relentless ingenuity proved that the Chinese language could adapt to telegraphs, QWERTY keyboards, and digital algorithms without losing its soul.

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