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China's Kingdom of Characters with Jing Tsu

Factually! with Adam Conover

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The Language Revolution That Made China Modern

Jing su jane is a professor in the department of comparative literature at yale. She's written a book about the chinese language and its history. Chinese doesn't have an alphabet, it has what are called characters. They make me look like square shaped clusters of smaller patterned intersection of lines and dots inside them.

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