1 Billion People. 100,000 Characters. 1 Typewriter.
Jul 16, 2018
2 minutes
By Thomas S. Mullaney
mountains of paperwork, and Mao Zedong’s sprawling authoritarian regime in China was certainly no exception. To process it all, the country needed a very special typewriter: the Double Pigeon. Under Mao, the Double Pigeon, known for its signature pale green color, was the preferred model among ordinary Chinese functionaries,
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