The Chinese designer likely referenced the protagonist in the cult 1987 Hong Kong horror film "A Chinese Ghost Story," with a touch of sci-fi influence.

In his 2017 book, “The Chinese Typewriter,” Dr. Mullaney wrote that he believed the MingKwai had most likely ended up on a scrapheap. The right person hadn’t been there to save it, to tell ...

The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented in 1946, was found last year in an upstate New York basement.