The Chinese Typewriter 在線電子書 圖書標籤: 科技史 曆史 海外中國研究 技術史 中國研究 文字 墨磊寜 中國近代史
發表於2025-03-17
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太長瞭,細節太多太冗雜瞭。technolinguistic modernity這個概念在導師解讀之後很有趣,但書裏非常不清晰。文筆太鬆散瞭。。。
評分近代中國語言改革領域被大書特書的都是一些有名的失敗者,比如陳獨秀們、魯迅們和錢玄同們,但很少有人關注那些寂寂無名的失敗者。所以作者認為,這些失敗者的實踐和試驗應該得到書寫,中文打字機這個“怪物”就是其中典型。認同作者的入口,但如果他能多運用下理論來凝練敘述,也許不會寫得這麼長長長長長(遣詞造句也看不大慣,可能是我個人問題)。科技語言現代性的概念完全浪費瞭,結論也算不上是什麼結論。
評分有趣,英文打字機的既有設計思路如何限製瞭西方世界對於中文打字機的想象。墨磊寜在這裏順帶提瞭拼音係統、漢字在日韓和日式中文打字機在亞洲的曆史等等。Aeon上那篇節選似乎還在下一本書裏,期待。ps簡體字版會是商務齣嗎?
評分太長瞭,細節太多太冗雜瞭。technolinguistic modernity這個概念在導師解讀之後很有趣,但書裏非常不清晰。文筆太鬆散瞭。。。
評分太長瞭,細節太多太冗雜瞭。technolinguistic modernity這個概念在導師解讀之後很有趣,但書裏非常不清晰。文筆太鬆散瞭。。。
Thomas S. Mullaney is Associate Professor of History at Stanford University and the author of Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China.
Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered presumed alphabetic universalism in the form of Morse Code, Braille, stenography, Linotype, punch cards, word processing, and other systems developed with the Latin alphabet in mind. This book is about those encounters -- in particular thousands of Chinese characters versus the typewriter and its QWERTY keyboard. Thomas Mullaney describes a fascinating series of experiments, prototypes, failures, and successes in the century-long quest for a workable Chinese typewriter.
The earliest Chinese typewriters, Mullaney tells us, were figments of popular imagination, sensational accounts of twelve-foot keyboards with 5,000 keys. One of the first Chinese typewriters actually constructed was invented by a Christian missionary, who organized characters by common usage (but promoted the less-common characters for "Jesus" to the common usage level). Later came typewriters manufactured for use in Chinese offices, and typewriting schools that turned out trained "typewriter girls" and "typewriter boys." Still later was the "Double Pigeon" typewriter produced by the Shanghai Calculator and Typewriter Factory, the typewriter of choice under Mao. Clerks and secretaries in this era experimented with alternative ways of organizing characters on their tray beds, inventing an arrangement method that was the first instance of "predictive text."
Today, after more than a century of resistance against the alphabetic, not only have Chinese characters prevailed, they form the linguistic substrate of the vibrant world of Chinese information technology. The Chinese Typewriter, not just an "object history" but grappling with broad questions of technological change and global communication, shows how this happened.
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