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Kingdom of Characters 2022
Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern is a nonfiction book written by Taiwanese American professor Jing Tsu. Published in January 2022, it contains seven chapters focusing on pioneers who shaped the modern Chinese language. The work was shortlisted for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and also received nominations for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, and the Cundill History Prize.
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