ABSTRACT
In 1946, the world’s first practical fully electronic computer ENIAC machine came into use in the University of Pennsylvania (Hutchins 1986: 23–24). China was then on the brink of a full-scale civil war after its anti-Japanese war ended in the previous year. In 1947, when Warren Weaver (1894–1978) came up with the idea of using computers in translating, China was divided by a civil war between forces led by the Kuomintang and forces led by the Communist Party. In 1949, the war was won by the latter and the People’s Republic of China was founded. Then efforts began to be made in an organized way in almost everything.
