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Discuss the position of printing technology in 17th century China. How was it affected by westeern technology in 19th century ?

I. Development of Printing technology in 17th century China :

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

(ii) Reading increasingly became a leisure activity. The new readership preferred fictional narratives, poetry, autobiographies, anthologies of literary masterpieces,and romantic plays.

(iii) Rich women began to read, and many women began publishing their poetry and plays. Wives of scholar -officials published their works and courtesans wrote about their lives.

II. Effect of western technology in 19th century China :

(i) Since hand printed started in China, books began reaching to public comprising children (boys and girls), youths, adults and senior people . All enjoyed interaction, intercourse, dissension with thoughts of scientific, theological ,prudential and conative. Bureaucrats began coming through examinations like that of civil service examinations held there.

(ii) School textbooks on western education system came  to pollute Chinese culture and well accommodated socialization when Western powers established their roots in China.