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Development and Promotion of Movable Type in the 1070s

Type Event Region East Asia Time 1071–1080

After Bi Sheng's invention of clay movable type (c. 1040s), the 1070s saw the Northern Song printing system of movable type and woodblock printing fu…

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  1. 1071–1075Kaifeng Imperial Academy · ChinaAfter the Xining Reforms, the center prioritized the publication of educational classics and calendrical-mathematical texts; the Imperial Academy and its affiliated bookshops increased their printing scale, using both woodblock and early movable type experiments to meet scholars' needs.
  2. 1076–1080Hangzhou · ZhejiangJiangnan printing centers, building on woodblock prosperity, experimented with wooden and clay movable type for supplementary setting, improving the composing frame and printing process to make bulk reproduction of Buddhist sutras, encyclopedias, and medical books more economical.

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