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Kingdom of Characters
A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China
Av Jing Tsu
Häftad, 2023
160 kr
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A PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTA riveting, masterfully researched account of the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese language to the modern world, transforming China into a superpower in the processWhat does it take to reinvent the world's oldest living language?China today is one of the world's most …
Global Chinese Literature
Critical Essays
Av Jing Tsu, David Der-wei Wang
Inbunden, 2010
2600 kr
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This path-breaking collection of critical essays introduces a diverse range of approaches to open up the field of modern Chinese literature to new cross-regional, local, and global analyses. Each of the ten essays deals with a particular conceptual problem or case study of different locations and …
Kingdom of Characters
A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China
Av Jing Tsu
E-bok, 2022
125 kr
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A PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTA riveting, masterfully researched account of the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese language to the modern world, transforming China into a superpower in the processWhat does it take to reinvent the world's oldest living language?China today is one of the world's most …
Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora
Av Jing Tsu
Inbunden, 2011
631 kr
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What happens when language wars are not about hurling insults or quibbling over meanings, but are waged in the physical sounds and shapes of language itself?Native and foreign speakers, mother tongues and national languages, have jostled for distinction throughout the modern period. The fight for …
Kingdom of Characters (Pulitzer Prize Finalist): The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
Av Jing Tsu
Häftad, 2023
241 kr
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Failure, Nationalism, and Literature
The Making of Modern Chinese Identity, 1895-1937
Av Jing Tsu
Inbunden, 2005
979 kr
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How often do we think of cultural humiliation and failure as strengths? Against prevailing views on what it means to enjoy power as individuals, cultures, or nations, this provocative book looks at the making of cultural and national identities in modern China as building success on failure. It …
Kingdom of Characters
A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China
Av Jing Tsu
Ljudbok, 2022
171 kr
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Brought to you by Penguin. A riveting, masterfully researched account of the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese language to the modern world, transforming China into a super-power in the process What does it take to reinvent the world''s oldest living language? China today is one of the …
Science and Technology in Modern China, 1880s-1940s
Av Jing Tsu
Inbunden, 2014
2518 kr
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The first of its kind, this collection of critical essays opens up new venues in the comparative study of science and culture by focusing on the formative decades of modern China in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. It provides a wide-ranging examination of the cultural …
Science and Technology in Modern China, 1880s-1940s
Av Jing Tsu
Häftad, 2014
760 kr
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The first of its kind, this collection of critical essays opens up new venues in the comparative study of science and culture by focusing on the formative decades of modern China in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. It provides a wide-ranging examination of the cultural …
Kingdom of Characters (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
Av Jing Tsu
Inbunden, 1900
283 kr
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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a …
