Question

Explain two stages of print technology of cna

Answer 1

The following points may help you:

 a. The first kind of print technology involved hand printing, later books were printed by rubber paper in China.
b.Earliest form of printing also involved woodblocks printing, China was the first country to use paper, ink and carved wooden blocks.
c. Chinese used the art of calligraphy.
d. China was the major producer of printed material, it published textbooks for civil services exams on a huge scale
e. Later, fictions, autobiographies, poetry also came to be published.
f. Women also became part of reading culture who began to publish their plays, poetry.
g. Later , by the end of 19th century there was a shift to mechanical printing, with mechanical presses were imported to China.
h. Shanghai became the centre for printing

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Answer 2

• From AD 594 onwards, books in China were printed by rubbing paper – also invented there – against the inked surface of woodblocks.
• As both sides of the thin, porous sheet could not be printed, the traditional Chinese ‘accordion book’ was folded and stitched at the side.
• China possessed a huge bureaucratic system which recruited its personnel through civil service examinations.
• Textbooks for this examination were printed in vast numbers under the sponsorship of the imperial state.
• From the sixteenth century, the number of examination candidates went up and that increased the volume of print.

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