The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented ...

As one of the world’s oldest writing systems, Chinese characters have more than 3,000 years of history and spread to many parts of Asia. This script is made of logograms, a printed symbol ...

The same is true of script reform. Chinese rulers recognized the diversity within Chinese characters. One common tactic for establishing control over the written language was to compile “books of ...

Chinese characters are extraordinary and have served as a keystone in the formation and development of the Chinese nation. Archaeologists have done a great job in researching their origins.

In the history of Chinese writing the number of characters that contained a phonetic element grew progressively, but Chinese never abandoned the principle of one character per word (or at least one ...

Although there have been several high-quality Chinese translations in recent years and the CUV has undergone revisions, the early history of Protestant Chinese Bible translation clearly testifies ...

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 ...