Table of Contents

  1. Series page
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Dedication and Epigraph
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: There Is No Alphabet Here
  7. 1 Incompatible with Modernity
  8. 2 Puzzling Chinese
  9. 3 Radical Machines
  10. 4 What Do You Call a Typewriter with No Keys?
  11. 5 Controlling the Kanjisphere
  12. 6 QWERTY Is Dead! Long Live QWERTY!
  13. 7 The Typing Rebellion
  14. Conclusion: Toward a History of Chinese Computing and the Age of Input
  15. Table of Archives
  16. Biographies of Key Historical Persons (alphabetic by surname)
  17. Character Glossary
  18. Bibliography of Sources
  19. Index
  20. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute

List of Tables

  1. Table I.1 SEQUENCE OF THE 2008 OLYMPIC GAMES PARADE OF NATIONS (FIRST TEN COUNTRIES)
  2. Table 2.1 Chinese character-based mediation of Roman alphabet (letter/character/pinyin)
  3. Table 6.1 Retrieval systems invented between 1912 and 1927 (partial list)

List of Illustrations

  1. I.1 Stroke order of ji and ye
  2. I.2 The eight fundamental strokes of the character yong (eternity)
  3. 1.1 Cartoon in the San Francisco Examiner (1900)
  4. 1.2 Cartoon in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat (1901)
  5. 1.3 Cartoon of Chinese typewriting (1903)
  6. 1.4 The Smith Premier double-keyboard typewriter
  7. 1.5 Keyboard of Siamese typewriter
  8. 1.6 The old McFarland store and its Remington Company replacement
  9. 1.7 Siamese typewriter by Remington, manufactured c. 1925 (USA), Peter Mitterhofer Schreibmaschinenmuseum/Museo delle Macchine da Scrivere, Partschins (Parcines), Italy
  10. 1.8 Remington Siamese typewriter event photos
  11. 1.9 Remington around the world: an advertisement for Remington typewriters
  12. 1.10 Advertisement for Olivetti Arabic typewriter
  13. 1.11 Advertisement for Olivetti Lettera 22
  14. 1.12 Olivetti article from 1958
  15. 2.1 Expansion of Chinese lexicon over time
  16. 2.2 Table of 214 keys by Marcellin Legrand
  17. 2.3 Character liu in divisible type
  18. 2.4 Character hai in divisible type
  19. 2.5 Character dang in full-body type
  20. 2.6 Character ran in divisible type
  21. 2.7 Character wu in full-body type
  22. 2.8 Transmission strategy using the Escayrac de Lauture system
  23. 2.9 1871 Chinese telegraph code (sample)
  24. 2.10 Sample of Chinese telegram and encryption process
  25. 2.11 Morse code
  26. 2.12 Chinese character-based mediation of Roman alphabet (letter/character/pinyin)
  27. 2.13 Sample page from character-mediated version of code book
  28. 3.1 Chinese typewriter invented by Devello Sheffield; from “A Chinese Type-writer,” Scientific American (March 6, 1899), 359
  29. 3.2 Photograph of typewriter by Zhou Houkun in New Youth
  30. 3.3 Zhou Houkun in Popular Science Monthly
  31. 3.4 Qi Xuan and his typewriter
  32. 3.5 Qi Xuan United States patent
  33. 3.6 Figure from Robert Brumbaugh patent application (filed 1946, patented 1950)
  34. 3.7 Figure of the character hua (華 “China”) from Wang Kuoyee patent application (1948)
  35. 4.1 Shu-style Chinese typewriter, Huntington Library
  36. 4.2 Roles and tasks in Commercial Press typewriter manufacturing plant
  37. 4.3 Commercial Press typewriter manufacturing plant
  38. 4.4 Photograph of female Chinese typist, 1928; Eastern Times photo supplement (Tuhua shibao) [圖畫時報] 517 (December 2, 1928): cover
  39. 4.5 Chinese typewriter training regimen (sample), showing typist’s movement from character to character within typewriter tray bed
  40. 4.6 Robert McKean Jones/Remington Chinese typewriter (1924/1927)
  41. 4.7 Shu Zhendong Chinese typewriter (lower left) at the Philadelphia world’s fair
  42. 4.8 Commercial Press brochure for the world’s fair
  43. 4.9 “Chinese Language Typewriter” in Life magazine, 1927
  44. 5.1 Japanese typewriters; from Watabe Hisako [渡部久子], Japanese Typewriter Textbook (Hōbun taipuraitā tokuhon) [邦文タイプライター讀本] (Tokyo: Sūbundō [崇文堂], 1929), front plate
  45. 5.2 Photograph of Japanese typist Kay Tsuchiya, 1937 (author’s personal collection)
  46. 5.4 Yu Binqi
  47. 5.5 Typewriter and typewriter part imports to China, 1932–1942
  48. 5.6 Advertisement for Japanese-made “All-Purpose” typewriter (with Japanese, Manchu, Chinese, and Mongolian)
  49. 5.7 The “People’s Welfare Typewriter”—a Wanneng duplicate
  50. 5.8 The Double Pigeon Chinese typewriter
  51. 6.1 Entering “typewriter” (daziji 打字机) using Sougou Chinese input
  52. 6.2 Keyboard of the MingKwai Chinese typewriter
  53. 6.3 Eight fundamental strokes of the character yong (eternity)
  54. 6.4 Chen Lifu’s outline of the relationship between the point and strokes
  55. 6.5 “Shape-Position” retrieval system by Du Dingyou
  56. 6.6 Lin Yutang’s 1931 letter, demonstrating how characters would be formed on his Chinese typewriter
  57. 6.7 Mechanical design of MingKwai
  58. 6.8 Postcard to Richard Walsh and Pearl S. Buck
  59. 6.9 Promotional image: “The Only Chinese Typewriter Designed for Everybody’s Use”
  60. 6.10 Photograph of Lin Yutang and Lin Taiyi; from “Inventor Shows His Chinese Typewriter,” Acme News Pictures—New York Bureau (August 21, 1947)
  61. 6.11 United States Army propaganda film featuring the role of Chinese typewriters in the Korean War (selections)
  62. 7.1 Propaganda poster featuring Chinese typist
  63. 7.2 Type-and-mimeograph edition of Long Live Chairman Mao Thought. Selections from 1957 and 1958 (c. 1958)
  64. 7.3 Sample of new character arrangement; from “Introduction to the ‘New Typing Method’ (‘Xin dazi caozuofa’ jieshao) [‘新打字操作法’介紹],” People’s Daily (Renmin ribao) (November 30, 1953), 3 (Romanizations included for purposes of illustration only)
  65. 7.4 Zhang Jiying
  66. 7.5 Sample from “Special Character Region” of Huawen typewriter (pre-1928); from Chinese Typewriter Character Arrangement Table (Huawen daziji wenzi pailie biao) [華文打字機文字排列表], character table included with Teaching Materials for the Chinese Typewriter (Huawen dazi jiangyi) [華文打字講義], n.p., n.d. (produced pre-1928, circa 1917)
  67. 7.6 The location of the character mao (毛) on three Chinese typewriters
  68. 7.7 Heat map comparison of typewriters from before and after the predictive turn
  69. 7.8 Heat map comparison of two natural-language tray beds
  70. 7.9 Predictive text tray bed organization chart (1988)
  71. 7.10 Explanation of “arrow style” organization in 1989 typewriting manual

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