Unveiled in 1947, the MingKwai typewriter was the product of a Chinese novelist’s yearslong obsession to build a machine that ...

The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age. By Thomas Mullaney. MIT Press; 376 pages; $34.95 and £32 The National Chinese Characters Typing Competition is rarely cause for ...

A historian went down an 18-year rabbit hole in search of obsolete machines. But there was one he thought he’d never find. The difficulty of designing a typewriter that can produce Chinese characters ...

Decades before its rediscovery in the Anglophone world, autocomplete was invented for putting Chinese characters into a computer. This is an excerpt from The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the ...

Two books on Chinese writing illustrate how tumultuous technological evolution can be. Every second of every day, someone is typing in Chinese. In a park in Hong Kong, at a desk in Taiwan, in the ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A unique experimental typewriter stored in a New York state ...

In this short lesson, I walk you through five super simple Chinese characters and their meanings using my whiteboard. I say each word in pinyin, show you how to write it, and explain what it means in ...

Whenever high-profile non-binary activist Siufung Law did media interviews, journalists always asked: what pronoun would they like to use? For a long time, the Hong Kong native, who uses they/them ...

In 2014, Stanford historian Thomas Mullaney placed a call he had been waiting to make for a decade. The woman who picked up, Lois Lew, was a Chinese-American who had spent most of her life running a ...

Ai, the chimpanzee advanced primate intelligence studies by mastering languages and colours, leaving a legacy in cognitive ...