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What a Long Lost Typewriter Says About Chinese Culture
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The MingKwai typewriter's keys enable the typist to find and retrieve Chinese characters. Elisabeth von Boch/Stanford hide caption
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The MingKwai typewriter's keys enable the typist to find and retrieve Chinese characters.
Elisabeth von Boch/Stanford
A typewriter recently discovered in a basement in upstate New York holds important clues about the origins of Chinese computing. And brings up questions about language and culture.
