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 ...
Inheritor Xiao Shihua prepares to print 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 ...
Early movable metal type printing from the period of the Goryeo Kingdom shows surface tension of the ink, which is a common tendency of liquid on metal surface at rest to shrink into circular liquid ...
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 ...
The Joseon Kingdom (1392-1910) was a nation of documentation. Many documents and books from Joseon such as “Joseon Wangjo Sillok” (“The Annals of the Joseon Kingdom”) and “Seungjeongwon Ilgi” (“The ...