Editor's note: Wooden movable-type printing, one of the oldest printing technologies invented in ancient China, was inscribed on UNESCO's List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent ...
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The four Chinese inventions that reshaped civilization
Long before Europe saw its first book or compass, China had already invented paper, movable type printing, gunpowder, and directional tools. Known as the Four Great Inventions, these breakthroughs ...
Qiu Zhiqiang makes wooden movable types in Ninghua county, southeast China's Fujian province, Nov 21, 2012. The wooden movable-type printing technique in Ninghua could date back to Ming Dynasty ...
'I really don't know if the factory will still be here in three years, but I hope to teach as many as possible about movable ...
Photo shows the characters of movable-type printing at a printing workshop in Qingdao, a coastal city of east China's Shandong province. Custormers can learn the movable-type printing, one of the ...
As April 23 marks as World Book Day, in Xi'an city, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, story of a young man named Wei Liming born after 1990 spent over 2 million yuan over five years to replicate ...
I’ve had an epiphany. This one is about Korean printing technology. The basic question is: Why, if the Gutenberg press spawned the Renaissance and then the Enlightenment and the end of feudalism in ...
I’ve had an epiphany. This one is about Korean printing technology. The basic question is: Why, if the Gutenberg press spawned the Renaissance and then the Enlightenment and the end of feudalism in ...
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