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The Chinese Typewriter: A History

by Thomas Mullaney

How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China’s information technology successes today. Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered presumed alphabetic universalism in the form of Morse Code, Br

Publisher

The MIT Press

Publication date

Oct 09, 2018

Format

Print edition

Pages

504

ISBN

9780262536103