Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Contents
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
Summary
How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China's information technology successes today
