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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 massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century...
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 massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology.
Kingdom of Characters follows the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese language to a world designed for the Roman alphabet and requiring standardization, from an exiled reformer who risked a death sentence to advocate for Mandarin as a national language to the imprisoned computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup. Without their advances, China might never have become the dominating force we know today.
With larger-than-life characters and an unexpected perspective on the major events of China’s tumultuous twentieth century, Tsu reveals how language is both a technology to be perfected and a subtle, yet potent, power to be exercised and expanded.
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作者简介 · · · · · ·
Jing Tsu is the John M. Schiff Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale. She specializes in Chinese literature, history, and culture from the nineteenth century to the present, and received her doctorate in Chinese studies from Harvard. A Guggenheim Fellow, she has held fellowships and d...
Jing Tsu is the John M. Schiff Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale. She specializes in Chinese literature, history, and culture from the nineteenth century to the present, and received her doctorate in Chinese studies from Harvard. A Guggenheim Fellow, she has held fellowships and distinctions from Harvard, Stanford, and Princeton institutes.
目录 · · · · · ·
1 A Mandarin in Revolution (1900) 1
2 Chinese Typewriters and America (1912) 43
3 Tipping the Scale of Telegraphy (1925) 89
4 The Librarian's Card Catalog (1938) 127
5 When "Peking" Became "Beijing" (1958) 169
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1 A Mandarin in Revolution (1900) 1
2 Chinese Typewriters and America (1912) 43
3 Tipping the Scale of Telegraphy (1925) 89
4 The Librarian's Card Catalog (1938) 127
5 When "Peking" Became "Beijing" (1958) 169
6 Entering into the Computer (1979) 211
7 The Digital Sinosphere (2020) 249
Acknowledgments 281
Notes 283
Index 305
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0 有用 阿波 2025-01-01 23:18:39 美国
从原版读,读英文描述汉字还是吃力的。后面读完了中信的译本,体会到了文字作为“基础设施”和信息载体的意义。这部分突破了我的认知,是进步。 另外,作者介绍了历史忘记的伟大的边缘人们,这一点很喜欢。
1 有用 香槟塔 2022-03-01 07:59:11
原来我每天都用的文字这么年轻!一本写给大众读者的现代汉语简史,每一章用不同的人物串联起了故事。多篇书评里都指出了,作者规避了现代汉语成型的过程中,海峡两岸的政治博弈。但总体上,是一场良好的阅读体验。
0 有用 Jacqueline_琳 2023-02-24 03:07:30 美国
Audiobook, 3.5/5. Character一词双关,既指汉字也指汉字现代化之路上的各色人物。本书关于前者的写作是精彩的,包含了注音、打字机、图书索引、电子存储等不同话题的诸多细节又浑然成为一体;关于后者的写作是单薄的,给人一种图有宏大叙事的野心但笔力不足的感觉,相比之下没有系统学术研究的《甲骨文》对人物的刻画要强太多。
0 有用 momo 2023-10-06 20:29:55 四川
感觉一般,面向外国人吧。每章都以一些人物故事开头,讲述一个阶段发展,但竞争激烈,每个阶段似乎都没有一统江湖的方案。1 最初的拼音尝试及普通话的诞生 2 中文打字机创始3电报代码方案 4 图书编目 5 汉字简化 6 支秉彝和王志。其实没搞懂这俩有什么区别。好像一个是输入一个是输出吧。 7 计算机编码
0 有用 Monkey 2022-12-11 14:41:44 北京
精彩!文字的现代化和社会的现代化(全球化-是中心和边缘共同作用的)既是本身有机的交织又是作者选取的共生关系。从reversecut到方大长了非常多知识~最大的感受是,一鲁迅说得有道理,二嗯,什么根就长出什么东西(748和别的数字没区别,反正肯定要遇上一些好心人又有一些胆颤心惊选择稳妥等等,一种处理问题的模式总是找到某一种解决办法,home grown有共同的特点,一个斑点显示全貌)