China's Kingdom of Characters with Jing Tsu

Factually! with Adam Conover

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4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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China is now one of the world’s most powerful nations. But how did its unique and formidable language shape its rise? Jing Tsu, the author of Kingdom of Characters, joins Adam to explain the history of the Chinese language, and the amazing innovations that brought it into the modern world. Check out her book at http://factuallypod.com/books Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This is a HeadGum podcast.
0:04.3	Hello everyone, welcome to Factually
0:29.8	I'm Adam Conover.
0:30.8	Thank you so much for joining me once again as I talk to an amazing expert about all
0:34.8	the incredible shit that is inside their brains as we try to get it into our brains.
0:39.9	Does that make sense?
0:40.9	Let me know what you think.
0:44.6	I want to thank once again everybody who supports me and this show on Patreon.
0:49.3	If you want to support, go to patreon.com slash Adam Conover.
0:52.9	You get bonus podcast episodes.
0:54.8	You get live stand up that I have never published anywhere else, including my entire one-hour
1:00.3	show, Mind Parasites Live, and you can join our live book club where we are reading a
1:06.4	nonfiction book together and then discussing it all together on a big Zoom with the author.
1:11.8	Our first book is For Law Cities by Annelie Nuets.
1:15.0	It's really incredible.
1:16.0	Super fun.
1:17.0	We're going to be talking to Annelie in just a couple weeks.
1:19.0	So hop on the Patreon if you want to join.
1:21.2	Now let's talk about today's episode.
1:23.4	As I've discussed recently, I've been trying to learn a lot more about China, the country,
1:27.9	the culture, the history, the people, the politics, the whole deal.
1:30.9	It is a fascinating topic, a fascinating place, and we have not even come close to exhausting
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