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Thomas Mullaney, “The Chinese Typewriter: A History” (MIT Press, 2017)

New Books in East Asian Studies

English - January 09, 2018 16:35 - 2 hours - ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
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Tom Mullaney’s new book The Chinese Typewriter: A History (MIT Press, 2017) provides a fascinating first look at the development of modern Chinese information technology. Spanning 150 years from the origins of telegraphy in the early 1800s to the advent of computing in the 1950s – the book explores the...
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Tom Mullaney’s new book The Chinese Typewriter: A History (MIT Press, 2017) provides a fascinating first look at the development of modern Chinese information technology. Spanning 150 years from the origins of telegraphy in the early 1800s to the advent of computing in the 1950s – the book explores the...

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