337: Jing Tsu | How A Language Revolution Brought China To Modernity In “Kingdom Of Characters”

23/03/2022 1h 1min
337: Jing Tsu | How A Language Revolution Brought China To Modernity In “Kingdom Of Characters”

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How important is language to the modernization of a nation? What did the modernization of Chinese have to do with making the country more modern? Professor Jing Tsu of Yale explores this topic in her latest book Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern, and she joins on episode 337 of The […]