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Apr 12, 2017 · Fundamentals

The Untold Story of Wang Xiaobo: China’s Early Programmer and Literary Genius

This article recounts how the celebrated Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo also became an early 1990s programmer, self‑teaching assembly and C to build Chinese editors, input methods, and other software, while detailing his correspondence that reveals the challenges of computing in early‑era China.