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 ...

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 ...

Ancient China: Facts about one of ... Despite early successes with movable type, this method of printing didn't catch on as quickly in Asia as it did in Europe.

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 ...

Ancient Chinese woodblock printing, 1,800 years old, inspires new cell block printing technique for cancer, neuron, other animal cells. News. ... Using this method, ...