{"word_count": 130, "character_count": 951}
Due to visa problems, Tom Mullaney, participant of the World Scripts Winter Academy, was unable to attend the ATypI conference in Brazil in person, and so created this film:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA0-8qRzDNk&#38;app=desktop&#160;Tom Mullaney is Associate Professor of Chinese History at Stanford University and the author of Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China (Foreword by Benedict Anderson). His current project is “Hot Metal Empire: Script, Media, and Colonialism in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East”, a history of linotype and its career in the non-Latin alphabetic world. He is also completing a two-volume history of China’s development of a nonalphabetic information infrastructure encompassing telegraphy, typewriting, and computing. The Chinese project is the recipient of the 2013 Usher Prize and a three-year National Science Foundation fellowship.Contact: Tom Mullaney | tsmullaney@stanford.edu