Typewriters that can type Chinese characters were invented in the early 20th century. Written Chinese is a logographic writing system, and facilitating the use of thousands of Chinese characters requires more complex engineering than for a writing system derived from the Latin alphabet, which may require only tens of glyphs. [1] .

This book is about those encounters -- in particular thousands of Chinese characters versus the typewriter and its QWERTY keyboard. Thomas Mullaney describes a fascinating series of experiments, prototypes, failures, and successes in the century-long quest for a …

2017年9月5日 · Thomas Mullaney, in his new book The Chinese Typewriter, chronicles the People’s Republic’s century-long quest to unite language and technology into universal expression. Ting. By the year 1915, China was no longer a country in search of a typewriter.

2016年9月3日 · One of hip-hop artist MC Hammer’s frenetic, high-stepping dance routines was nicknamed the “Chinese Typewriter” because its furious moves supposedly mimicked the flailing that would be...

When you hear the words 'Chinese typewriter,' what images jump to mind? A keyboard with thousands of keys? A massive machine? If so, you wouldn’t be alone—although you would be wrong.

2016年9月3日 · One of hip-hop artist MC Hammer’s frenetic, high-stepping dance routines was nicknamed the “Chinese Typewriter” because its furious moves supposedly mimicked the flailing that would be required of a Chinese typist trying to quickly hop about a massive keyboard.

This Shu Zhendong Chinese typewriter developed by the Commercial Press in Shanghai in the 1920s was the country’s first mass-manufactured typewriter. It is a remarkable intricate piece of machinery that testifies to Chinese ingenuity in solving the puzzle of how to type in a language with thousands of characters.

After Zhou departed Commercial Press, his work was built upon by Shu Zhendong, who went on to develop the “Shu-Style Chinese Typewriter” (Shu shi Huawen daziji 舒式華文打字 機), China’s first commercially produced Chinese typewriter.

2010年1月1日 · After spending some time searching the Internet, Mullaney made an amazing discovery: as early at the turn of the 20th-century, patent records were in existence for Chinese typewriter designs. The more he dug, the more evidence for Chinese typewriters he found. Mullaney describes his initial research as a period of breathless excitement.

2020年3月12日 · The MingKwai Chinese typewriter combined “search” and “writing” for arguably the first time in history, anticipating a human-computer interaction now referred to as input, or shuru in Chinese.