Jennifer’s Photo Stories (23) :The Best Investment

Previous parts 接前文

This photo was taken when I worked as an intern at a company in Beijing during a summer vacation when I was a graduate student. See the old-fashioned computer in the early 1990's? I learned how to type Chinese characters with a professional input method while working there. With this method, I could type super fast.

And prior to that, I had taken an English typewriting course, in which I learned how to type English words properly and quickly on a real typewriter like a typist in the old days. I remember the minimum requirement was to be able to hit the keys 250 times or to type 60 words per minute, without looking at the keyboard, your finished job, or the screen. I did graduate with such speed.

At that time I didn't know why I had decided to learn such a skill. When I was in university, I "blindly" took many courses in many different areas and learned many different things.

But years later, when I ended up being imprisoned in a labor camp and subjected to all kinds of torture for practicing Falun Gong, and after I decided to write a book to expose the unprecedented persecution (please refer to my article From A Prisoner To A Writer ), the ability to type very fast in both English and Chinese became very important. For me, the time spent on learning how to type both English and Chinese in professional ways is perhaps one of the best "investments" I have ever made. It is hard to estimate how much time I have saved in all these years, because I have been writing a lot on computers ever since I started writing my book Witnessing History: one woman's fight for freedom and Falun Gong in 2001.

9/4/2017 **

Read all 閱讀《曾錚的圖片故事》全系列

Click here for info about where to read or buy Jennifer''s book in English and Chinese, as well as where to watch the award-winning documentary based on Jennifer's story: "Free China: The Courage to Believe"