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CANCELED: Jing Tsu – Key Strokes: What Made the Chinese Script Revolution?

CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Jing Tsu, Yale University It is tempting to understand the Chinese script revolution of the modern era as part of a familiar narrative of vengeance.  The Chinese language was idealized then disparaged by the Europeans, on this view, banished then revived only to play a mere prop in different fantasies about the Orient.  That Chinese […]