Jing Tsu discusses her new book "Kingdom of Characters"
Schedule
Sat Sep 24 2022 at 11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Location
Rollins Community Center and Lewes History Museum, Lewes | Lewes, DE
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Please join us on Saturday, September 24, at 11:30 a.m. Eastern, for a 2022 History Book Festival author presentation featuring Jing Tsu, author of "Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution that Made China Modern" (Riverhead Books, 2022).Presented in partnership with the Chinese American Community Center (CACC).
All Saturday events are FREE. Seats are available on a first-come basis.
About the book
China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations, but just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few. As the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave China behind, several bold innovators led the fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology. Without their advances, China might never have become the dominating force we know today.
About the author
Jing Tsu is the John M. Schiff Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature and chair of the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale. A Guggenheim Fellow, she has held fellowships and distinctions from Harvard, Stanford, and Princeton institutes.
Purchase the book
Copies of "Kingdom of Characters" are available from Browseabout Books in Rehoboth Beach, official bookseller of the History Book Festival, and biblion in Lewes. Online sources and digital versions are tempting; however, supporting local brick and mortar shops helps to preserve our vibrant main streets.
BUY THE BOOK
https://bit.ly/BB-Tsu
About the Festival
The 2022 History Book Festival is presented by Delaware Humanities and The Lee Ann Wilkinson Group, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices I PenFed Realty. Our Keynote Address is presented by Dogfish Head, and our Closing Address is presented by Joe and Debbie Schell. Because of their support, as well as the generosity of other funding partners and donors, we are able to offer the bulk of this festival free-of-charge to attendees.
Thanks also to our community partners for their continuing support: the Lewes Public Library for event promotion and venue; Browseabout Books in Rehoboth Beach, official bookseller of the History Book Festival; and the "Cape Gazette" and Delmarva Public Media, our media partners.
Learn more about the other authors presenting at 2022 HBF
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Where is it happening?
Rollins Community Center and Lewes History Museum, Lewes, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
