FINALISTA DEL PREMIO PULITZER Un racconto avvincente e magistralmente documentato degli audaci innovatori che hanno adattato la lingua cinese al mondo moderno, trasformando la Cina in una superpotenza Cosa ci vuole per reinventare la lingua vivente più antica del mondo? La Cina oggi è una delle nazioni più potenti del mondo, ma solo un secolo fa era un impero in rovina con l'alfabetizzazione riservata a pochi eletti, abbandonata sulla scia della tecnologia occidentale. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu dimostra che la sfida più ardua della Cina era linguistica: rendere la formidabile lingua cinese, un sistema di scrittura vecchio di 2.200 anni che scoraggiava sia i nativi che gli stranieri, accessibile a un mondo digitale globalizzato. Kingdom of Characters segue gli audaci innovatori che hanno adattato la scrittura cinese, e il sistema di valori che rappresenta, ai progressi tecnologici che avrebbero plasmato il ventesimo secolo e oltre, dal telegramma alla macchina da scrivere allo smartphone. Dal riformatore esiliato che rischiò la morte per sostenere il mandarino come lingua nazionale, all'ingegnere informatico imprigionato che ideò codici di input per i caratteri cinesi sul coperchio di una tazza da tè, generazioni di studiosi, missionari, bibliotecari, politici, inventori, nazionalisti e rivoluzionari hanno compreso l'urgenza del loro compito e le sue conseguenze che avrebbero cambiato il mondo. Con personaggi più grandi della vita e una narrazione avvincente, Kingdom of Characters offre una prospettiva sorprendentemente originale su una delle trasformazioni più drammatiche del ventesimo secolo.
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Jing Tsu is the John M. Schiff Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures & Comparative Literature at Yale, where she specializes in Chinese literature, history, culture, science and technology, and politics. She is a member of the Council on East Asian Studies at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies and an affiliate faculty at the Jackson School of Global Affairs. A Guggenheim fellow, she has held fellowships and distinctions from Harvard, Stanford, and Princeton. She moved to the US from Taiwan at age 9, and now lives in New York City.
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