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Book National Union Catalog

Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Book FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin

Download or read book FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Topical Bibliography of Translation and Interpretation

Download or read book A Topical Bibliography of Translation and Interpretation written by Sin-wai Chan and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Directory of Chinese Personal Names in Bangkok

Download or read book Directory of Chinese Personal Names in Bangkok written by United States. Department of State. External Research Division and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin

Download or read book FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin written by United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Codes of Modernity

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  • Author : Uluğ Kuzuoğlu
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2023-11-28
  • ISBN : 0231557914
  • Pages : 221 pages

Download or read book Codes of Modernity written by Uluğ Kuzuoğlu and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Chinese writing system. The Chinese characters, they argued, were too cumbersome to learn, blocking the channels of communication, obstructing mass literacy, and impeding scientific progress. What had sustained a civilization for more than two millennia was suddenly recast as the root cause of an ongoing cultural suicide. China needed a new script to survive in the modern world. Codes of Modernity explores the global history of Chinese script reforms—efforts to alphabetize or simplify the writing system—from the 1890s to the 1980s. Examining the material conditions and political economy underlying attempts to modernize scripts, Uluğ Kuzuoğlu argues that these reforms were at the forefront of an emergent information age. Faced with new communications technologies and infrastructures as well as industrial, educational, and bureaucratic pressures for information management, reformers engineered scripts as tools to increase labor efficiency and create alternate political futures. Kuzuoğlu considers dozens of proposed scripts, including phonetic alphabets, syllabaries, character simplification schemes, latinization, and pinyin. Situating them in a transnational framework, he stretches the geographical boundaries of Chinese script reforms to include American behavioral psychologists, Soviet revolutionaries, and Central Asian typographers, who were all devising new scripts in pursuit of informational efficiency. Codes of Modernity brings these experiments together to offer new ways to understand scripts and rethink the shared experiences of a global information age.

Book Records Management Quarterly

Download or read book Records Management Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Union Catalogs  1963

Download or read book The National Union Catalogs 1963 written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Resources in Education

Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1986-02 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tilburg Foreign Law Review

Download or read book Tilburg Foreign Law Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary Catalog of the Oriental Collection

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Oriental Collection written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative  1950 1977

Download or read book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative 1950 1977 written by R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 2006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Walford s Guide to Reference Material

Download or read book Walford s Guide to Reference Material written by Albert John Walford and published by Library Association Publishing (UK). This book was released on 1980 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Kingdom of Characters  Pulitzer Prize Finalist

Download or read book Kingdom of Characters Pulitzer Prize Finalist written by Jing Tsu and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. 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 them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology. Kingdom of Characters follows the bold innovators who reinvented the Chinese language, among them an exiled reformer who risked a death sentence to advocate for Mandarin as a national language, a Chinese-Muslim poet who laid the groundwork for Chairman Mao's phonetic writing system, and a computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup from the floor of a jail cell. Without their advances, China might never have become the dominating force we know today. With larger-than-life characters and an unexpected perspective on the major events of China’s tumultuous twentieth century, Tsu reveals how language is both a technology to be perfected and a subtle, yet potent, power to be exercised and expanded.

Book Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Download or read book Last Night at the Telegraph Club written by Malinda Lo and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Book Award A New York Times Bestseller "The queer romance we’ve been waiting for.”—Ms. Magazine Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the feeling took root—that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. Whenever it started growing, it definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. Suddenly everything seemed possible. But America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father—despite his hard-won citizenship—Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day. (Cover image may vary.)

Book The Police Chief

Download or read book The Police Chief written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-07 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guide to Reference Material

Download or read book Guide to Reference Material written by Albert John Walford and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: