Jeff Schechtman talks with authors, journalists, and thought leaders.
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Friday Feb 04, 2022
Friday Feb 04, 2022
The story of how the world's oldest living language adapted to the modern world is one that carries within it the story of how language itself shapes our vision and our thinking. How the quest for progress is often stronger than the pull of history. It’s how a language can literally be reinvented, iterated and adapted, and at the same time carry a country along with it.
That is the story of the evolution of the Chinese language that my my guest Jing Tsu tells in her new book Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
My conversation with Jing Tsu:
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