The Chinese Typewriter: A History

by Thomas S. Mullaney

Book Overview

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, Braille, stenography, Linotype, punch cards, word processing, and other systems...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262036363
• ISBN13: 9780262036368
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher