The Revolution of The Chinese Script
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. Jing Tsu is a cultural historian, linguist and literary…
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