The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented ...

Now this was and still is an unusual view because Chinese—with its 75,000 individual characters rather than an alphabet—had historically been the language considered incompatible with modern ...

KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS The Language Revolution That Made China Modern By Jing Tsu. One summer’s evening in 1916, 27-year-old Zhou Houkun stepped up to a podium to unveil a marvelous invention: a ...

CHIN 1010 (5) Beginning Chinese 1. An introduction to the fundamentals of modern standard Chinese (Mandarin), including pronunciation, Chinese characters, grammar, and conversation. Students develop ...

Chinese characters in their modern form remain the only regular medium for writing standard Chinese in the world today. In modern China, some of the most complex or frequently used characters have ...

After Chiang Kai-shek shifted the capital from Beijing to Nanjing in the 1930s, he quietly adopted the Beijing dialect as the national standard. He subsequently asked the academic Lin Fu to research ...

Chinese keyboards are evolving to meet modern needs. ... Instead, a short combination of keys will generate a specific character. There's no standard method for this, however.

To a non-Chinese speaker (like me), and especially to a Westerner (like me), Chinese is the most impenetrable family of languages on Earth. While there may be only an eighth as many syllables as ...