Decades before its rediscovery in the Anglophone world, autocomplete was invented for putting Chinese characters into a computer. This is an excerpt from The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the ...

Third-party keyboard apps make typing in Chinese more efficient, but they can also be a privacy nightmare. For millions of Chinese people, the first software they download on a new laptop or ...

One year ago, American couple Jennifer and Nelson Felix discovered a peculiar typewriter in boxes cleared out from Jennifer’s late father’s Arizona basement. The characters on its keys appeared to be ...

A historian went down an 18-year rabbit hole in search of obsolete machines. But there was one he thought he’d never find. The difficulty of designing a typewriter that can produce Chinese characters ...