Question

summary of chapter his - print culture​

Answer 1

Answer:

• The earliest print technology was developed in China, Japan and Korea.

• By the seventeenth century, as urban culture bloomed in China, the uses of print diversified.

• In the late nineteenth century, western printing techniques and mechanical presses were imported as Western powers established their outposts in China.

• Shanghai became the hub of the new print culture.

Print in Japan

• Around AD 768-770, Buddhist missionaries from China introduced hand-printing technology into Japan.

• The Buddhist Diamond Sutra was the oldest Japanese book which was printed in AD 868.