Question

describe in brief how printing developed in China

Answer 1

Buddhist monasteries from China introduced hand-printing technology into Japan around AD 768-770.

The oldest printed Japanese book was the Buddhist ‘Diamond Sutra’ with woodcut illustrations.

Pictures were printed on textiles, playing cards and paper money.

Printing of visual material led to interesting publishing practices

Answer 2

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• From 594 AD, books in China were printed by rubbing paper against the in surface of wood blocks.

• The printing was done on thin porous sheet, and only one side of this sheet was printed .

• The traditional Chinese 'accordion book' was folded and stitched at the side.

• The printing was done by superbly skilled craftsmen who printed the calligraphy.

• The Imperial state in China was the major producer of printed material.

• China process a use bureaucratic system which recruited its personnel through civil service examinations.

• The text books for this examination were printed in vast numbers under the sponsorship of the Imperial state.

• By the 17th century, different was used vastly all over in China.

• The print was no longer just used by scholar officials.

• The Merchants started using print in their everyday life to collect the trade information.

• The women started to read and to publish their poetries and plays.

• Reading became a leisure activity.

• Shanghai became the hub of the new print culture in China.

• Slowly the print culture started to develop in other countries like Japan and Korea and later it spread in the Europe.

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