Typewriters and typists in Republican China, 1910s–1940s: everyday technology and race, class and gender.
The typewriter came into general use in China in the early twentieth century, a symbol of modernization and globalization, accessible to all walks of life. But how did it affect people's livelihood and their social relationships? How was this small machine appropriated locally within the domestic dy...
| Publicado en: | Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 345 - 384 |
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Sep2022
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