From Wubi to Zhineng ABC, here are the different ways Chinese people have typed their language over the years. This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about ...

The history of Chinese characters is also a history of technological advances, design innovations, as well as nation building and globalization. Since the 19th century, generations of Chinese printers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...