Decoded by Mai Jia
Contributed by Aubrey Hays, Frere-Jones Type
on May 12th, 2026. Artwork published in
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Decoded by Maj Jia was designed by Rodrigo Corral and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, using Nobel by Frere-Jones Type.
Decoded is a 2002 spy thriller, translated from the Chinese by Olivia Milburn and Christopher Payne in 2014, about a brilliant but autistic mathematician, Rong Jinzhen, recruited by the top-secret Chinese intelligence agency Unit 701 for code-breaking during the WWII era and its aftermath.
