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