10 Facts About Chinese typewriter

Chinese typewriter is a typewriter that can type Chinese script.

However, as the Chinese language uses a logographic writing system, fitting thousands of Chinese characters on the machine needed much more complex engineering than typewriters using a simple Latin alphabet, or other non-logographic scripts.

Chinese typewriter's efforts were initially hindered by a lack of technical assistance in Shanghai.

Ming Kwai Chinese typewriter is an electromechanical Chinese typewriter invented and patented by Lin Yutang.

That multilingual Chinese typewriter was the size of a conventional office Chinese typewriter of the 1940s.

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The selected Chinese typewriter character appeared in the magic eye for preview, the typist then pressed a "master" key, similar to today's computer function key.

Chinese typewriter broke tradition with the long-standing system of radicals and stroke order writing and categorizing of Chinese characters, inventing a new way of seeing and categorizing.

Chinese typewriter engineers were trying to make the most common characters be accessible at the fastest speed possible by word prediction, a technique used today in Chinese input methods for computers, as well as in text messaging in many languages.

Chinese typewriter has become a metaphor for absurdity, complexity and backwardness in Western popular culture.

Chinese typewriter was ultimately eclipsed and made redundant with the introduction of computerised word processing, pioneered by engineer and dissident Wan Runnan and his partners when they formed Stone Emerging Industries Company in 1984 in Zhongguancun, China's "Silicon Valley".