| ISBN |
0241295858 (hbk.)
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| ISBN13桁 |
9780241295854 (hbk.)
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| 無効なISBN等 |
9780241295861 (ePub ebook)
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| テキストの言語 |
英語
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| 分類：NDC10版 |
820.2
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| 個人著者標目 |
Tsu, Jing.
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| 本タイトル |
Kingdom of characters :
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| タイトル関連情報 |
a tale of language, obsession, and genius in modern China /
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| 著者名 |
Jing Tsu.
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| 出版地・頒布地 |
[London], UK :
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| 出版者・頒布者名 |
Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books,
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| 出版年・頒布年 |
2022,
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| 数量 |
xix, 314 pages :
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| 他の形態的事項 |
illustrations ;
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| 大きさ |
24 cm.
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| 書誌注記 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| 要約、抄録、注釈等 |
A riveting, masterfully researched account of the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese language to the modern world, transforming China into a superpower in the process What does it take to reinvent the world's oldest living language? China today is one of the world's most powerful nations, yet just a century ago it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, left behind in the wake of Western technology. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu shows that China's most daunting challenge was a linguistic one- to make the formidable Chinese language - a 2,200-year-old writing system that was daunting to natives and foreigners alike - accessible to a globalized, digital world. Kingdom of Characters follows the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese script - and the value-system it represents - to the technological advances that would shape the twentieth century and beyond, from the telegram to the typewriter to the smartphone. From the exiled reformer who risked death 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, generations of scholars, missionaries, librarians, politicians, inventors, nationalists and revolutionaries alike understood the urgency of their task and its world-shaping consequences. With larger-than-life characters and a thrilling narrative, Kingdom of Characters offers an astonishingly original perspective on one of the twentieth century's most dramatic transformations.
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| 一般件名 |
Chinese characters -- History -- 20th century.
Chinese language -- History -- 20th century. |
| 資料情報1 |
『Kingdom of characters :
a tale of language, obsession, and genius in modern China /』 Jing Tsu. Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2022,
（所蔵館：中央
請求記号：F/820.2/T88/K
資料コード：7116126671）
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| URL |
https://catalog.library.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/winj/opac/switch-detail.do?lang=ja&bibid=1352058895 |
