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    Summary of Jing Tsu's Kingdom of Characters
    Summary of Jing Tsu's Kingdom of Characters
    Summary of Jing Tsu's Kingdom of Characters
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    Summary of Jing Tsu's Kingdom of Characters

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    Book Preview: #1 Wang Zhao, a Buddhist monk, was wanted for treason by the Empress Dowager Cixi, who ruled the Qing dynasty. He wanted to go home, and so he fled to Japan and then Shandong Province in northern China.

    #2 The Chinese language seemed to be a major impediment to the country’s adaptation. At negotiation tables with foreigners, the Chinese were unable to find easy equivalents for loaded concepts like rights and sovereignty and were seen as barbaric and inferior by their counterparts.

    #3 The Chinese language was on the verge of a major change, as the old empire was about to be shaken up by decades of internal problems and turbulent encounters with other nations.

    #4 In 1900, China was in turmoil. An early example of what would come to be known as the Map of National Humiliation began circulating in the late nineteenth century, depicting the different foreign powers as their popular avatars, carving out their share of the country.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIRB Media
    Release dateMar 3, 2022
    ISBN9781669354970
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      #1

      Wang Zhao, a Buddhist monk, was wanted for treason by the Empress Dowager Cixi, who ruled the Qing dynasty. He wanted to go home, and so he fled to Japan and then Shandong Province in northern China.

      #2

      The Chinese language seemed to be a major impediment to the country’s adaptation. At negotiation tables with foreigners, the Chinese were unable to find easy equivalents for loaded concepts like rights and sovereignty and were seen as barbaric and inferior by their counterparts.

      #3

      The Chinese language was on the verge of a major change, as the old empire was about to be shaken up by decades of internal problems and turbulent encounters with other nations.

      #4

      In 1900, China was in turmoil. An early example of what would come to be known as the Map of National Humiliation began circulating in the late nineteenth century, depicting the different foreign powers as their popular avatars, carving out their share of the country.

      #5

      The Qing dynasty was unable to address the large-scale poverty and famine that was occurring in China, and this led to social unrest. The reform movement brought together a clique of scholars and officials who proposed ways of altering and improving governance, education, and defense.

      #6

      The Chinese writing system, once revered, celebrated by its people, and practiced by neighboring cultures, seemed clumsy and backward to the West. The Chinese language was seen as inherently incompatible with logic and abstract thinking.

      #7

      The Chinese script was not just tangential to this historical change, but it seemed as though it stood for everything that was wrong with China. Some began to wonder whether the writing system should continue to exist.

      #8

      Wang was a military man who rose through the ranks to become an overseer at the Board of Rites, the office in charge of the court’s ceremonies and rituals. He was a poet and a melancholic patriot who saw himself as a lone monk.

      #9

      The task of saving China with literacy had kept Wang focused. He had created a phonetic notation system for indicating how whole characters could be read aloud. He wanted to use the Chinese language to

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