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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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), …

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 …

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 …