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 ...

Qiu Zhiqiang makes wooden movable types in Ninghua county, southeast China's Fujian province, Nov 21, 2012. The wooden movable-type printing technique in Ninghua could date back to Ming Dynasty ...

Google is replacing its homepage logo with a Doodle honouring Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the movable type printing press. German-born Gutenberg’s invention in the 1400s is credited with ...

Inheritor Xiao Shihua prepares to print 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 ...

Early movable metal type printing from the period of the Goryeo Kingdom shows surface tension of the ink, which is a common tendency of liquid on metal surface at rest to shrink into circular liquid ...

As April 23 marks as World Book Day, in Xi'an city, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, story of a young man named Wei Liming born after 1990 spent over 2 million yuan over five years to replicate ...

Sarah Herrmann looks at cards she's just purchased from Kyle Durrie's type Kyle Durrie likes to think she’s giving people a little bit of new education in a very old subject, one handmade card at a ...

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 ...

Inheritor Xiao Shihua prepares to print 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 ...