Question

Describe the development of print in China ..........

Answer 1

Answer:

The development of printing culture in China: (i)From AD 594 onwards, books in China were printed by rubbing paper – also invented there – against the inked surface of woodblocks. ... (v)From the sixteenth century, the number of examination candidates went up and that increased the volume of print.

Answer 2

Printing was invented in Chinaduring the Tang Dynasty (618-906 AD). ... The earliest form of Chinese printingrelied on blocks cut from wood. These blocks were used to print textiles and reproduce Buddhist texts.

printing in east Asia evolved from ink rubbings made on paper or cloth from texts on stone tables in •China• during the Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 CE).[1][2] Mechanical woodblock printing on paper started in China during the Tang dynasty before the 8th century CE.[3][2] The use of woodblock printing quickly spread to other East Asian countries. While the Chinese used only clay and wood movable type at first, use of metal movable type was pioneered in Korea by the 13th century.[4] The Western-style printing pressbecame known in East Asia by the 16th century but was not fully adopted until centuries later.