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> Western writing has a very small character set and is thus well-suited to a printing press This is vastly overstated. This was a widely popularized idea in t
by UncleMeat 1y ago
> Western writing has a very small character set and is thus well-suited to a printing press
This is vastly overstated. This was a widely popularized idea in the west but has largely been debunked by more recent scholarship that is less interested in demonstrating the superiority of the west.
- adrianN 1y agoDo you have links to relevant research?
- UncleMeat 1y agoTom Mullaney at Stanford has a good book on chinese typewriters (this narrative is usually presented against both printing presses and typewriters) and is a good entrance into the intersection of chinese script and technology. History research is typically published in books rather than papers, so it isn't content I can link to directly.