Humanities at Stanford
Inside the humanities at Stanford University
Humanities at Stanford
Historian Discovers that the Chinese Typewriter is No Joke
How do you represent a language with tens of thousands of characters on a keyboard?
Thomas Mullaney, Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese History, investigates that question and many more as he writes the world’s first history of the Chinese typewriter.
Terry Castle's New Collection of Darkly Humorous Essays
Stanford English professor Terry Castle's writing has been described by critics as "fearless," "brain-goosing," and "wildly funny."
In The Professor and Other Writings, Castle presents a selection of emotionally honest and poignantly humorous autobiographical essays.