How a solitary prisoner decoded Chinese for the QWERTY keyboard
China’s personal computing revolution was born not in a suburban garage but a prison cell, and fine-tuned on a teacup
by Thomas S Mullaney
Thomas S Mullaney is professor of Chinese history at Stanford University. His books include Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China (2010); Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation and Identity of China’s Majority (2012); and The Chinese Typewriter: A History (2017). His next book, The Chinese Computer: A Global History, is forthcoming from MIT Press.
Written by Thomas S Mullaney