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Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern Historical Fiction until archaeologists in the nineteenthA New York Times Notable Book of 2022 A Washington Post Best Nonfiction 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 massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China's most