The PDP-1 is the first computer in Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP series and was first produced in 1959. It is known for being the most important computer in the creation of hacker culture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,Bolt,Beranek and Newman,and elsewhere. The PDP-1 is the original hardware for one of the first video games,Steve Russell's 1962 game Spacewar!.
A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters. Typically,a typewriter has an array of keys,and each one causes a different single character to be produced on paper by striking an inked ribbon selectively against the paper with a type element. Thereby,the machine produces a legible written document composed of ink and paper. By the end of the 19th century,a person who used such a device was also referred to as a typewriter.
Lin Yutang was a Chinese inventor,linguist,novelist,philosopher,and translator. He had an informal style in both Chinese and English,and he made compilations and translations of the Chinese classics into English. Some of his writings criticized the racism and imperialism of the West.
The Chen dynasty,alternatively known as the Southern Chen in historiography,was a Chinese imperial dynasty and the fourth and last of the Southern dynasties during the Northern and Southern dynasties period. Following the Liang dynasty,the Chen dynasty was founded by Chen Baxian. The Chen dynasty further strengthened and revitalized the economy and culture of southern China,and made territorial expansions northward,laying the foundation for future dynasties. It was conquered by the Sui dynasty in 589,marking an end to the Northern and Southern dynasties period in Chinese history. The descendants of the Chen imperial family continued to hold powerful high-ranking positions in the imperial courts of both the Sui and Tang dynasties.
Hou Hsiao-hsien is a retired Mainland Chinese-born Taiwanese film director,screenwriter,producer and actor. He is a leading figure in world cinema and in Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement. He won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1989 for his film A City of Sadness (1989),and the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 for The Assassin (2015). Other highly regarded works of his include The Puppetmaster (1993) and Flowers of Shanghai (1998).
Gai Qi,courtesy name Bowen 伯蕰,art names Qiliang 七郎and Yuhu Waishi 玉壶外史,was a poet and painter born in western China during the Qing dynasty. As an artist,he was active in Shanghai. His paintings mainly concerns plants,beauty,and figures. However,he also did numerous landscapes. In poetry,he preferred the rhyming ci form and added such poems to his paintings.
Dongfeng Automobile Co.,Ltd. is a Chinese automobile company based in Xiangyang,Hubei. It is a subsidiary of Dongfeng Motor Co.,Ltd. (DFL) which is a joint venture of Dongfeng Motor Group (DFG) and Nissan. DFG is majority owned by Dongfeng Motor Corporation,a Chinese state-owned enterprise.
Li Sanli was a Chinese computer scientist and also an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE),professor of Tsinghua University,dean and professor of School of Computer Engineering and Science in Shanghai University.
Shuzhendong Chinese Typewriter is the first Chinese animation ever made in 1922 by Wan Laiming and Wan Guchan. The animation could be classified as lost media.
The Xuanwu Gate Incident was a palace coup for the throne of the Tang dynasty on 2 July 626,when Prince Li Shimin and his followers assassinated his brothers Crown Prince Li Jiancheng and Prince Li Yuanji. Li Shimin,the second son of Emperor Gaozu,was in an intense rivalry with his brothers. He took control and set up an ambush at Xuanwu Gate,the northern gate leading to the Palace City within the imperial capital Chang'an. There,Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji were murdered by Li Shimin and his men. Within three days after the coup,Li Shimin was installed as the crown prince. About two months later,Emperor Gaozu abdicated and passed the throne to Li Shimin,who would become known as Emperor Taizong.
Typewriters that can type Chinese characters were invented in the early 20th century. Written Chinese is a logographic writing system,and facilitating the use of thousands of Chinese characters requires more complex engineering than for a writing system derived from the Latin alphabet,which may require only tens of glyphs. An ordinary Chinese printing office uses 6,000 characters. Models began to be mass-produced in the 1920s. Many early models were manufactured by Japanese companies,following the invention of the Japanese typewriter by Kyota Sugimoto,which used kanji adopted from the Chinese writing system. At least sixty different models of Chinese typewriter have been produced,ranging from sizable mechanical models to electronic word processors.
Hou Junji was a Chinese general and official who served as a chancellor during the reign of Emperor Taizong in the Tang dynasty. He is best known for leading the Tang military campaigns against the Gaochang and Tuyuhun kingdoms. In 643,he was implicated in a plot by the crown prince,Li Chengqian,to overthrow Emperor Taizong,and was executed.
The China women's national volleyball team represents the People's Republic of China in international volleyball competitions and friendly matches governed by Chinese Volleyball Association. The current head coach is Cai Bin.
The China Chess League (CCL) is a Chinese professional league for chess clubs. The league is organized by the Chinese Chess Association. It is sponsored by Youngor Group and was sponsored by the Shandong Torch Real Estate Group (2005–2009) and it has been able to determine the league's sponsorship name. Seasons usually run from April to November each year. The league is contested by 10 clubs. Under the rules of the league each team is allowed to register seven Chinese players and an unlimited quota of foreign players. The rules require five boards with at least two female players and a 25 min+30 sec increment rapid game must also be played on one of the boards.
The first practical Japanese typewriter was invented by Kyota Sugimoto in 1915. Out of the thousands of kanji characters,Kyota's original typewriter used 2,400 of them. He obtained the patent rights to the typewriter that he invented in 1929. Sugimoto's typewriter met its competition when the Oriental Typewriter was invented by Shimada Minokichi. The Otani Japanese Typewriter Company and Toshiba also released their own typewriters later.
Retainers,also known as house guests,invited guests or catered guests,were a special social group in Ancient China from pre-Qin period to Han dynasty,who lived as dependent employees under a nobleman,an officeholder,or a powerful landlord.
Zhi Bingyi was a Chinese scientist in the fields of telecommunications engineering,measuring instrument and Chinese character encoding. He was one of the earliest figures in Chinese history to have contributed to the science of characters computer processing. He has been hailed by many as "Chinese characters information processing pioneer". He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Wang Zhao was a Chinese linguist and advocate of modern phonetic writing. Wang was from Ninghe,Tianjin in the province of Zhili. He created a syllabary for Chinese writing based on Mandarin called the Mandarin Alphabet. While this system is no longer used,Wang was the first to formally suggest the adoption of a national language for China based on Mandarin.
Thomas Shawn Mullaney is an American sinologist. He is a Guggenheim fellow. He is professor of history at Stanford University,working on technology,race,and ethnicity in China.
Chang He,Courtesy name Dalai,formally the Count of Wushui (武水伯),was a Tang dynasty general and official. He was the head of the Xuanwu Gate's guard during the Xuanwu Gate Incident,playing an important role in it.
