HISTORY
CH-7 PRINT CULTURE AND MODERN WORLD
THE FIRST PRINTED BOOKS
Printed in China
✓ 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 imparted as western powers established their outposts in china.
✓ Shangai became the hub of the new print culture.
Printed in Japan
✓ Around AD 786-770, Buddhist missionaries from china introduced hand printing
technology into Japan.
✓ The Buddhist diamond sutra was the oldest japenese book which was printed in AD
868.
Print comes to Europe
✓ In the 11th century, Chinese paper reached Europe via the silk route.
✓ In 1952, Morcopolo, a great explorer, returned to Italy from china and brought
printing knowledge back with.
✓ Italians began producing books with woodblocks, and soon the technology spread
to other parts of Europe.
✓ As the demand for books increased, bookseller all over Europe began exporting
books to many different countries.
✓ But the production of hand written manuscripts could not satisfy the ever increasing
demand for book because:
• Copying was expensive, laborious and time consuming business.
• Manuscripts were fragile, awkard to handle.
✓ In the 1430s, Johan Gutenberg invented new printing technology by developing first
known printing press at starsbourg Germany.
Gutenberg and the printing press
✓ Gutenberg learned the art of polishing stones, became master goldsmith, and also
acquired the expertise to create lead moulds used for making brinkets.
CH-7 PRINT CULTURE AND MODERN WORLD
THE FIRST PRINTED BOOKS
Printed in China
✓ 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 imparted as western powers established their outposts in china.
✓ Shangai became the hub of the new print culture.
Printed in Japan
✓ Around AD 786-770, Buddhist missionaries from china introduced hand printing
technology into Japan.
✓ The Buddhist diamond sutra was the oldest japenese book which was printed in AD
868.
Print comes to Europe
✓ In the 11th century, Chinese paper reached Europe via the silk route.
✓ In 1952, Morcopolo, a great explorer, returned to Italy from china and brought
printing knowledge back with.
✓ Italians began producing books with woodblocks, and soon the technology spread
to other parts of Europe.
✓ As the demand for books increased, bookseller all over Europe began exporting
books to many different countries.
✓ But the production of hand written manuscripts could not satisfy the ever increasing
demand for book because:
• Copying was expensive, laborious and time consuming business.
• Manuscripts were fragile, awkard to handle.
✓ In the 1430s, Johan Gutenberg invented new printing technology by developing first
known printing press at starsbourg Germany.
Gutenberg and the printing press
✓ Gutenberg learned the art of polishing stones, became master goldsmith, and also
acquired the expertise to create lead moulds used for making brinkets.
