Describe the process of diversification of use of print in 17 century china.
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By 17th century, urban culture bloomed in China and use of print diversified.
(i) Print was no longer used just by scholars and officials.
(ii) Merchants used print in their everyday life, as they collected trade information.
(iii) Reading increasingly became a leisure activity. New readers preferred narratives, poetry,autobiographies, authologies of literary masterpieces and romantic plays.
Rich women began to read, many women began publishing their poetry and plays. Lives of scholar officials published their works and courtesans wrote about their lives.
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Explanation:
By seventeenth century the use of print was diversified in China.
Besides being widely used by scholars, merchants collected printed books gave trade information. Books were widely read even by common people as a leisure activity.
The new readers preferred fiction, poetry autobiography, anthologies and romantic plays.