Why Morse Code Didn’t Work for Chinese — and the Genius Fix

🌜Learn any language subconsciously with LingQ🌛: https://www.lingq.com/?referral=jules... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Join ♣️ The Linguist List ♣️ to get access to perks:    / @julesytooshoes   Morse code and telegraphy posed significant problems for China in the 19th century, but eventually, as it happens with continued persistence, everything turned out A--OK in the end. [Timeline] [00:00] On a dark cloudness night [01:26] Great Northern Telegraph Company (Denmark) [02:38] Early Draft of Chinese Morse Code [04:48] Birth of the Chinese Morse Code [05:35] Problems of Chinese Morse Code [08:35] Why China was SO Left Behind [09:43] Growing Pains of Telegraphy Business [10:31] Introducing a NEW Service of Telegrams [11:23] Our Main Character Arrives (Wang Jingchun) [14:50] Modern-day Telegraphy Use in China [16:33] Easter Egg 【 For Further Reading (English)】 "Kingdom of Characters" by Jing Tsu (2022) "The Chinese Typewriter" by Thomas Mullaney (2017) "The Chinese Computer" by Thomas Mullaney (2024) "Dot Dot Dot: What the Last Ever Telegrams From Hangzhou Say" (2025): https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1017061 "The grammar of the telegraph in the Late Qing: the design and application of Chinese telegraphic codebooks" (2018): https://2024.sci-hub.ru/7373/37b40729... About Danish Telegraphic Lines in China: https://lynge.com/en/travel-geography... 【 For Further Reading (Chinese)】 Videos: 【技术史】晚清电报发展的崎岖历程: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Qu4... Articles: 在杭州发出最后的电波，0375 6015: https://36kr.com/p/3280888762491017 SAY HI! Instagram:   / julesytooshoes