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Item: The Chinese Typewriter
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Author: 里森

Thomas S. Mullaney

Incompatible with modernity -- Puzzling Chinese -- Radical machines -- What do you call a typewriter with no keys? -- Controlling the Kanjisphere -- QWERTY is dead! Long live QWERTY! Lin Yutang and the birth of input -- The typing rebellion

A History

The Chinese Typewriter

里森

From its inception, the all-kana typewriter was a machine with a politics, wherein modernization was premised on cutting the Japanese language’s ties with its Chinese orthographic heritage. The trope of the impossible, monstrous Chinese typewriter examined in chapter 1 was here mobilized in a Japanese context as a kind of cautionary tale (lest Japan too find itself excommunicated from the universe of modernity).

Kanji typewriters were not developed until fifteen years after their all-kana predecessors.

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