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Culture, history and society

Technology with characters: the story of China’s unique transformation

11 Mar 2022
Taken from the March 2022 issue of Physics World.

Andrew Robinson reviews Kingdom of Characters: a Tale of Language, Obsession and Genius in Modern China by Jing Tsu

Software button showing a Chinese character and the letter A
Key issue There are tens of thousands of Chinese characters, which creates a challenge for technologies developed based on Western alphabets. (Courtesy: iStock/alexsi)
Chinese characters, in use by the second millennium BCE or even earlier, have functioned longer than

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Andrew Robinson is the author of Writing and Script: a Very Short Introduction, published by Oxford University Press
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