Save the Chinese typewriter

María Ramos

Tom Mullaney, professor of Chinese history and History of Technology at Stanford University, has a kickstart project for organising a tour exhibition on Chinese typewriters.
In our often westernised view on type history and technology, initiatives like this one are really important. 
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chinesetypewriter/save-the-chinese-typewriter

Hin-Tak Leung

For an appeal to save what appeared to be substantially pre-1950 technology (i.e. pre-simplified Chinese), it is quite off-putting that it is written in simplified Chinese, and not in the written language it is about... The person appealing is not practicing what he is appealing for.

It would be a bit more convincing if he uses the written language of the appropriate era, traditional Chinese, to write the appeal, instead of what he did.

Belleve Invis

The Chinese text is not native at all. 说明文字里的汉语一点都不地道呀。

ps. Lin Yutang has made a Chinese typewriter with only 50 keys — He implemented an IME using pure machine movements.

Hin-Tak Leung

Lin Yutang (passed away 1976, just looked it up) is a bit young in this context.