CAS XL 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Woodblock Printing, Diamond Sutra, Movable Type
2 Feb 2020
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Types of printing: woodblock printing: advantages: could almost look like manuscripts and calligraphically important. The first country in the world to use this in a mass sense was korea: divisible type (not successful, rubbings: aesthetic and practical value of it. Imperial printing office in qing dynasty china (1644-1911: encyclopedia in china 11726. Diamond sutra from dunhuang, 868 ce: the importance of print and religion is very crucial, the first prints were of buddhist texts. Korea: from bulguska pagoda, temple in the capital of silla. 684: a big debate about whether this was first or the one mentioned above was first. Koreas moveable type printing was emphasized because it was modular. Million stupa dharani, japan, horuyuji temple 8th cent. How was the printing press used in the 15th century in europe: printing the bible, translations from hebrew and pamphlets from the reformations. Japan: mass population and commercial printing culture in 17th and 18th century.
