Books by Jing Tsu
“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
Interviews where books by Jing Tsu were recommended
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The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness
by Katie Booth -
2
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955
by Harald Jähner & Shaun Whiteside (translator) -
3
Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village
by Marit Kapla & Peter Graves (translator) -
4
Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science
by James Poskett -
5
When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold
by Alia Trabucco Zerán & Sophie Hughes (translator) -
6
Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China
by Jing Tsu
The British Academy Book Prize: 2022 Shortlist, recommended by Philippe Sands
The British Academy Book Prize: 2022 Shortlist, recommended by Philippe Sands
The annual British Academy book prize rewards “works of nonfiction that have contributed to public understanding of world cultures and their interaction.” Human rights lawyer Philippe Sands, one of the prize’s judges, talks us through the books that made the 2022 shortlist and explains what makes them so compelling.
