Question

When did printed literature begin to circulate in the China?

Answer 1

This was system of hand printing. In AD 594 in china printing was done by rubbing paper – also invented there – against the inked surface of woodblocks.

Imperial state in China was major producer of printing material for a long time.

By the seventeenth century, as urban culture bloomed in China, the uses of print diversified. Print was no longer used just by scholar officials. Merchants used print in their everyday life, as they collected trade information.