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It's a big world, and I personally don't know anything about the history of software in places other than the west. Could you expand on the particulars of software in China and why those claims are wrong?

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> Known as the "godfather" of programmers in the internet era

Well, was he? I mean, I never heard of him, but all I know about the Chinese internet from those years I got from reading China Smack.

I can't speak to computing history in China, but Read Only Memory has books about the Japanese [0] and British [1] video game companies. MIT has published books about computing in Taiwan, Bulgaria, and China [2]. The former two are even open access, so you can download them for free.

[0] https://readonlymemory.com/products/japansoft-an-oral-histor...

[1] https://readonlymemory.com/products/britsoft-an-oral-history

[2] https://direct.mit.edu/books/search-results?f_ContentType=Bo...

What does any of this have to do with Chen Danyan?

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