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 ...

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 ...

The story of printing is a long and complex one. It may be too much to claim that printing was the single cause of the massive social, political and psychological changes it is associated with.

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 ...

Inheritor Xiao Shihua carves typeheads in Zhulin village, Tantou town of Central China's Hunan province, June 25, 2017. Xiao Shihua, who was born in 1971, studied movable type printing in the guidance ...

WUHAN, April 24 (Xinhua) -- In a workshop in Yingshan County, central China, German scholar Fabian Schrodt carefully pressed paper onto inked clay blocks, recreating an 11th-century innovation from ...

Nothing divided the medieval world in Europe more decisively from the Early Modern period than printing with movable type.It was a German invention and the culmination of a complex process.The world ...

Nothing divided the medieval world in Europe more decisively from the Early Modern period than printing with movable type.It was a German invention and the culmination of a complex process.The world ...

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 ...