Janus: Papers of Joseph Needham as a historian of Chinese science, technology and medicine

Needham/NRI2/SCC2 contains:
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20	'Standard Titles etc. Translation Problem (Schafer)'
21	'Translation Questions (Mostly ?)'
22	'Script Problems'
23	Chinese characters, language etc.
24	Computerisation of Chinese
25	Geography of China, Human and Economic
26	History of China
27	Relations and contacts between China and the West, including Central Asia; travellers; Influence of China on Europe
28	'Rewriting of Contacts Chapter'
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Papers of Joseph Needham as a historian of Chinese science, technology and medicine

Title	Computerisation of Chinese
Reference	SCC2/24
Covering Dates	1970–4 Aug. 1987
Extent and Medium	Paper

Needham/NRI2/SCC2/24 contains:

Correspondence and other documents relating to a inaccurate report published in 'Kung Sheung Evening News', Hong Kong, about the computerisation of Chinese. The report falsely describes a trip to the U.K. by Dr. Yeh Chen-Hui of Taiwan 'to compare and decide which one of two Chinese computers is superior'. The documents include a letter from R. P. Sloss of the Chinese Language Project, University of Cambridge to Joseph Needham accompanying a copy of an English translation of the report, 25 September 1978. Sloss says of the report, 'there is no part of this absurd melodrama that accords with my memory of what took place'. The documents also include letters from Sloss and Joseph Needham to the editor of the newspaper disassociating themselves with the report, 25 and 28 September 1978. The documents also include a letter from Lee Tsung-Ying of 'Eastern Horizon' about possible legal action against the Hong Kong newspaper, 10 October 1978.
Creator: Sloss, R.P.; Needham, Joseph; Lee Tsung-Ying.
12 sheets; Paper.

25 Sep. 1978–10 Oct. 1978

Advertisement for a Chinese word processing system produced by IPX Taiwan, Ltd. and Ideographix, Inc, U.S.A.
1 document; Paper.

1970–1979

'Print-out' of machine generated Chinese characters. The printout is marked, 'Sloss-Nancarrow print-out on the occasion of Huang Hua's visit, 13 Oct 78'.
1 document; Paper.

13 Oct. 1978

Photocopy of an article by ?? [Wei Ming / Wei Ming] entitled «?????????» published in 'The Seventies Magazine', Hong Kong and English translation of same. The translation is by R. P. Sloss of the Chinese Language Project, University of Cambridge. There is a note from Sloss to Joseph Needham at the head of the first page. 'This I feel to be a sensible and balanced account of the current state of development in this field'.
Creator: Wei Ming; Sloss, R.P.
11 sheets; Paper.

25 Sep. 1978

Letter from Chan-Hue Yeh [??? / Yeh Chhen-Hui / Ye Chenhui] of IPX Taiwan, Ltd., accompanying a letter from Chen Li-Fu [??? / Chhen Li-Fu] of Taiwan introducing Yeh's work on a 'computer to handle Chinese ideographic characters'. The documents also include an English translation of Chen's letter; related Joseph Needham notes.
Creator: Chan-Hue Yeh; Chen Li-Fu; Needham, Joseph.
6 sheets; Paper.

20 Apr. 1978–24 Apr. 1978

Cutting of a 'New York Times' article by R. W. Apple entitled 'Two Britons Devise a Computer That Can Communicate in Chinese'. The 'two Britons' referred to are Robert Sloss and Peter Nancarrow of Cambridge University. The cutting also includes a photograph of the two engineers 'with the device they built'.
Creator: Apple, R.W.
1 document; Paper.

25 Jan. 1978

Leaflet advertising the 'Ideo-matic' Chinese character encoder, engineered by Robert Sloss and Peter Nancarrow of Cambridge University.
1 document; Paper.

June 1981

Copy of an article by Tim Scott entitled 'From Turtle Shells to Computer Chips', published in 'Evergreen International'.
Creator: Scott, Tim.
2 sheets; Paper.

Jan. 1982

Copy of a United States Patent for Wang Yong-Min of the Computation Center, Henan Province, China for a 'Universal System of Encoding Chinese Characters and its Keyboard'.
8 sheets; Paper.

4 Aug. 1987

Joseph Needham's notes of a 'Personal Visit with Doris Watt CUHK [Chinese University of Hong Kong] Computer Centre, 24 Oct 79'. Joseph Needham's notes show diagrams of a computer network, complete with '? generator'. There are also attached printed sheets of information about IBM and ISIS systems.
6 sheets; Paper.

24 Oct. 1979

File containing 'technical data' information sheets and sample print-outs from IPX Taiwan, Ltd. and Ideographix, Inc, U.S.A.
11 pieces; Paper.

1978–1982

Joseph Needham's original file title.
1 document; Paper.

1970–1979