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336 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 0141985313
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd.
Publication date: 05 January 2023
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What does it take to reinvent the world's oldest living language?China today is one of the world's most powerful nations, yet just a century ago it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, left behind in the wake of Western...
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336 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 0141985313
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd.
Publication date: 05 January 2023
Description
What does it take to reinvent the world's oldest living language?China today is one of the world's most powerful nations, yet just a century ago it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, left behind in the wake of Western...