A historian went down an 18-year rabbit hole in search of obsolete machines. But there was one he thought he’d never find.

The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented in 1946, was found last year in an upstate New York basement.

Frank’s life in China is a result of taking bold, unconventional steps at a time when most people his age couldn’t see why he made such choices.

Wong and Warmuth also co-hosted a segment on Chinese-language radio station KAZN AM 1300 in which they answered legal questions from callers and explained aspects of the criminal justice system.