One of the worlds oldest printing techniques, wooden movable-type printing is maintained in Ruian County, Zhejiang Province, where it is used in compiling and printing clan genealogies. Men are ...

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 ...

In a printing factory, an elderly man points out numerous errors he has circled in a book on the history of movable type, his voice edged with indignation. “Many historical accounts about the industry ...

PAJU, Gyeonggi Province — It is like stepping back in time — the Movable Type Workshop in Paju Book City, Gyeonggi Province, resembles a small museum of type-printing but all the machines are still in ...

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 ...

HK Magazine: How long have you been in the printing business? Lee Chak-yue: I’ve been in the field for over 60 years. Following a few years as an apprentice after I left primary school, I started up ...

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 ...