How China Changed Its Language From Archaic Confucian Bureaucracy to the Lingua Franca of Globalization

Published: March 21, 2022, 6:45 a.m.

After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world\u2019s 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...