Wang Yunwu
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Wang Yun Wu was born 1888 in Shanghai and was a famous Chinese scholar of history and political science, he was also a politician and invented Shih Chiao Hao Ma, a method of Chinese lexicography also sometimes referred to as the Four Corner Method
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On May 31, 1948 during the Chinese Civil War he was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as Finance Minister to the Ministry of Finance (Republic of China). After the Chinese Civil War he moved to Taipei with his family.
In 1972 Wang Yun-wu presided over the Memorial Hall's opening on behalf of the government.
On August 14, 1987 to commemorate his historical achievement his picture (as above) was placed on the NT$ 2 Stamp of which 4 million units were printed in the Republic of China (also known as Taiwan).
Four corner method
The Four Corner Method is a character input method used for encoding Chinese characters into either a computer or a manual typewriter, using four or five numerical digits per character. The Four Corner Method is also known as the Four Corner System.The four digits encode the shapes found in the...
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Career
In the 1920s when Wang Yun-wu was the editor in chief at the Commercial Press Ltd., China, one of the oldest book enterprises in China he invented the Four Corner MethodFour corner method
The Four Corner Method is a character input method used for encoding Chinese characters into either a computer or a manual typewriter, using four or five numerical digits per character. The Four Corner Method is also known as the Four Corner System.The four digits encode the shapes found in the...
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On May 31, 1948 during the Chinese Civil War he was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as Finance Minister to the Ministry of Finance (Republic of China). After the Chinese Civil War he moved to Taipei with his family.
In 1972 Wang Yun-wu presided over the Memorial Hall's opening on behalf of the government.
On August 14, 1987 to commemorate his historical achievement his picture (as above) was placed on the NT$ 2 Stamp of which 4 million units were printed in the Republic of China (also known as Taiwan).
See also
- Four Corner MethodFour corner methodThe Four Corner Method is a character input method used for encoding Chinese characters into either a computer or a manual typewriter, using four or five numerical digits per character. The Four Corner Method is also known as the Four Corner System.The four digits encode the shapes found in the...
- Ministry of Finance (Republic of China)
- Commercial PressCommercial Press-History:In 1897, 26-year-old Xia Ruifang and three of his friends founded The Commercial Press in Shanghai. The group soon received financial backing and began publishing books. In 1914, Xia attempted to buy out a Japanese company that had invested in the Commercial Press. Four days later he was...
External links
- http://blog.sanriotown.com/wangyunwu:kuririnmail.com/2007/04/08/wang-yun-wu-commemorative-stamp-issue/ The Wang Yun-wu commemorative stamp
- http://www.yatsen.gov.tw/en/content.php?id=49&PHPSESSID=9aa767ec0c9eeb97e34d4cf7d7fa05f Wang Yun-wu presiding over the Memorial Hall's inaugural ribbon-cutting ceremony