It takes the average reader 5 hours and 46 minutes to read Kingdom of Characters by Jing Tsu
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
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...
Kingdom of Characters by Jing Tsu is 337 pages long, and a total of 86,609 words.
This makes it 114% the length of the average book. It also has 106% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 53 minutes to read Kingdom of Characters aloud.
Kingdom of Characters is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.
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