Word: chiu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Situated in a small room on the first floor of Widener Library is a Chinese typewriter. This intricate machine was demonstrated to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday by A. Kaiming Chiu, Instructor in Chinese Language and Literature, and librarian of the Chinese books of Harvard University...
...with the speed of an American machine. This is, however, twice the speed with which one can print Chinese by hand. Furthermore, it is a greater speed than one thinks, because most Chinese words consist of only one or two characters, whereas English words consist of many more. Mr. Chiu in illustrating this fact said that 'Harvard' is represented in Chinese by two characters. The word is formed by transliteration, and curiously enough the translation of the characters is "laughing Buddha...
Education: Wang Chiu-ling...