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    The China Printing Museum (Chinese: 中国印刷博物馆; pinyin: zhōngguó yìnshuā bówùguǎn) is a public museum dedicated to printing, located in Beijing, China. Established...
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    Woodblock printing or block printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity...
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    and cloth printing. Initially a method of printing patterns on cloth such as silk, woodblock printing for texts on paper originated in China by the 7th...
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    Movable type (redirect from Type (printing))
    world's first movable type printing technology for paper books was made of porcelain materials and was invented around 1040 AD in China during the Northern Song...
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    Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns that was used widely throughout East Asia. It originated in China in antiquity...
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    National Museum of China is an art and history museum located on the eastern side of Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The National Museum of China has a total...
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    Printing in East Asia originated in China, evolving from ink rubbings made on paper or cloth from texts on stone tablets, used during the sixth century...
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    and printing. These four inventions had a profound impact on the development of civilization throughout the world. However, some modern Chinese scholars...
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    Post and Postage Stamp Museum China Numismatic Museum China Printing Museum China Railway Museum China Science and Technology Museum Dabaotai Western Han...
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    Bi Sheng (category History of printing)
    system used fired clay tiles, one for each Chinese character, and was invented between 1039 and 1048. Printing was one of the Four Great Inventions. Because...
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    The Museum of Printing (MoP), located in Haverhill, Massachusetts, is a museum dedicated to preserving the history of printing technologies and practices...
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    type. This received limited use compared to woodblock printing. The technology spread outside China, as the oldest printed book using metal movable type...
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    Letterpress printing is a technique of relief printing for producing many copies by repeated direct impression of an inked, raised surface against individual...
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    center of political power in China for over 500 years from 1420 to 1924. The palace is now administered by the Palace Museum. As a UNESCO World Heritage...
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    Woodcut (redirect from Woodcut printing)
    in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later on paper. The earliest woodblock printed fragments to survive are from China, from...
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    papermaking, printing, the compass, and gunpowder (the Four Great Inventions), became widespread across East Asia, the Middle East and later Europe. Chinese mathematicians...
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    3D printing or additive manufacturing is the construction of a three-dimensional object from a CAD model or a digital 3D model. It can be done in a variety...
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    Screen printing is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink (or dye) onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by...
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    Transfer printing is a method of decorating pottery or other materials using an engraved copper or steel plate from which a monochrome print on paper is...
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    Wood type (category Letterpress printing)
    In letterpress printing, wood type is movable type made out of wood. First used in China for printing body text, wood type became popular during the nineteenth...
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    but it was also used for printing books in the same period. Invented in China during the Tang dynasty, woodblock printing was widely adopted in Japan...
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  • Chinese publishing and printing industry have a long history. The first printed book sold commercially was sold in the markets of Tang dynasty China in...
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    Ink (redirect from Printing ink)
    1985). Science and Civilization in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 1, Paper and Printing. Cambridge University Press. p. 5....
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    various other inventions such as paper and printing, and continues through to the modern-day business of book printing. The earliest knowledge society has on...
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    dynasty and Qing dynasty hall, China national treasure hall, Jianyang printing museum and Yangzhou jianyang printing hall. Exhibits date from the neolithic...
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    probably first developed as a means of printing patterns on cloth, and by the 5th century was used in China for printing text and images on paper. Woodcuts...
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  • professionalization of entertainment fostered by the spread of printing, the rise of literacy and education. In both China and Europe, the novel gradually became more autobiographical...
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    Spode (redirect from Stone china)
    in the 19th century: transfer printing on earthenware and bone china. Spode perfected the technique for transfer printing in underglaze blue on fine earthenware...
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  • dynasty (960–1279) saw the maximal extent of imperial Chinese cosmopolitan development. Mechanical printing was introduced, and many of the earliest surviving...
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    Taiwan (redirect from China, Republic of)
    relations with China, with special reference to the period 1944–1949, based on the files of the Department of State. U.S. Government Printing Office. Hsü...
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