Kingdom of Characters Quotes

“China’s total imports of U.S. goods rose dramatically after 1900, from 2.65 percent of its total global trade in the last thirty-five years of the nineteenth century to 22.05 percent in the first four decades of the twentieth century.”
― Jing Tsu, Kingdom of Characters : The Language Revolution That Made China Modern

“By the second decade of the twentieth century, America’s industrial production accounted for one-third of the world’s total output.”
― Jing Tsu, Kingdom of Characters : The Language Revolution That Made China Modern