Thomas Mullaney: 2 books
Coming to Terms with the Nation
Ethnic Classification in Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
China is a vast nation comprised of hundreds of distinct ethnic communities, each with its own language, history, and culture. Today the government of China recognizes just 56 ethnic nationalities, or minzu, as groups entitled to representation. This controversial new book recounts the history of...
The Chinese Typewriter
A History
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China's information technology successes today.
Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered...