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Print Culture and The Modern World
Who was the major producer of printed material? What increased the voume of print in China?
The imperial state in China was the major producer of printed materials.
(i)China possessed a huge bureaucratic system which recruited its personnel through civil service examinations.
(ii)Textbooks for this examination were printed in vast numbers under the sponsorship of the imperial state.
From the sixteenth century, the number of examination candidates went up and that increased the volume of print.
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What did the spread of print culture in nineteenth century India mean to:
The poor
What did the spread of print culture in nineteenth century India mean to:
Reformers
Why did some people in eighteenth century Europe think that print culture would bring enlightenment and end despotism?
Why did some people fear the effect of easily available printed books? Choose one example from Europe and one from India.
What were the effects of the spread of print culture for poor people in nineteenth century India?
Explain how print culture assisted the growth of nationalism in India.
Where was the earliest kind of print technology developed?
For what purpose, the earliest textbooks were printed in China?
What is vellum?
Kitagawa Utamarao born in Edo in:
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