describe the spread of print from china to europe
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Printing had been prevalent in China since the sixth century AD. Initially, the Chinese state was the major producer of printed material. Since the Chinese government relied on an elaborate bureaucracy, it required printed records of its work and various transactions. The state also sponsored the large scale printing of textbooks for the civil services examinations.
By the seventeenth century, the use of print spread to the common people, primarily in urban areas. Printing was no longer the monopoly of the scholar-bureaucrats. Instead, merchants began to use printed material to keep record of their trade related transactions. Literature also started appearing in printed form. Fiction, poetry, literary anthologies, autobiographies and plays, all began to appear in printed form. Reading became a favoured leisure activity, particularly among the urban rich women who even began publishing their poetry and plays.
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By the seventeenth century, the use of print spread to the common people, primarily in urban areas. Printing was no longer the monopoly of the scholar-bureaucrats. Instead, merchants began to use printed material to keep record of their trade related transactions. Literature also started appearing in printed form. Fiction, poetry, literary anthologies, autobiographies and plays, all began to appear in printed form. Reading became a favoured leisure activity, particularly among the urban rich women who even began publishing their poetry and plays.
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