104: Mandarin Chinese Language Backstory with David Moser, Author of "A Billion Voices"

Can the making of a language be a riveting story? Yes, yes, and 对啊. According to Sinologist, Linguist, Jazz Pianist & returning Geopats Guest David Moser, for modern day Mandarin Chinese there are power struggles, harsh words, a jazz music studio and a bit of Abbot and Costello behavior that contributed to the language story. In this conversation, David and I chat about his story and people packed book about the manufacturing of modern day Mandarin Chinese via his book  "A Billion Voices". 

David's last visit on Geopats Podcast: 

https://geopats.podbean.com/e/ldavid-moser-mandarin-chinese-a-billion-voices/ 

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David's Info: 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/david__moser

Why Chinese is so hard (article): http://www.pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html

“A Billion Voices” (book): https://www.amazon.com/Billion-Voices-Language-Penguin-Special-ebook/dp/B01FVD7LES/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1538717916&sr=1-1&keywords=billion+voices

More about David: http://www.chinafile.com/contributors/david-moser

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Links:

-Economist review of "A Billion Voices": https://www.economist.com/node/21708731/all-comments

-China Daily review of "A Billion Voices": http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2016-07/20/content_26150829.htm

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