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“It was the first thing I’ve read that began to enable me to understand the art of Chinese writing. They don’t have an alphabet with twenty-something letters, but thousands of symbols or characters. She tells a rather gripping story. The book gets completely fascinating on how you transmit those characters in the age of, first, the typewriter, and then the digital age. How do you get these Chinese characters onto the internet? At the heart of it are matters of power and authority and persuasion and propaganda and communication. Interestingly, it is a mark of leadership for a Chinese leader to have penmanship.” Read more...
The British Academy Book Prize: 2022 Shortlist
Philippe Sands, Lawyer
