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Print Culture and The Modern World

Printing technology originated in China and spread to Japan. Demand for books increased with the growth of urban culture and book fairs in 17th century China. The oldest printed book in Japan is the Buddhist Diamond Sutra. The printing press reduced book production costs and allowed for wider circulation of ideas, fueling religious debates and intellectual changes like the Reformation and French Revolution. In the 19th century, women became important as both readers and writers, with genres often aimed specifically at female audiences. Printing was introduced to India by Portuguese missionaries and saw a growth of newspapers and literature in regional languages over the centuries.

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Print Culture and The Modern World

Printing technology originated in China and spread to Japan. Demand for books increased with the growth of urban culture and book fairs in 17th century China. The oldest printed book in Japan is the Buddhist Diamond Sutra. The printing press reduced book production costs and allowed for wider circulation of ideas, fueling religious debates and intellectual changes like the Reformation and French Revolution. In the 19th century, women became important as both readers and writers, with genres often aimed specifically at female audiences. Printing was introduced to India by Portuguese missionaries and saw a growth of newspapers and literature in regional languages over the centuries.

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Print Culture and the Modern

World
The earliest kind of print technology
was developed in China, Japan and
Korea.

In China, books were printed by rubbing paper against


the inked surface of woodblocks.
First Printed Books

Print in China
In the 17th Century, the use of print diversified in
China because of booming urban culture.

Print In Japan
Buddhist missionaries from China introduced
hand printing technology into Japan.
The oldest Japanese book printed is the
Buddhist ' Diamond Sutra'
Increase in Demand for Book

Demand for Books increased because


•Book fairs were held at different places.
•Production of handwritten manuscripts was also
organised in New ways to meet the expanded demand.
•Scribes or Skilled hand writers were no longer solely
employed by wealthy or influential patrons but
increasingly by booksellers.

The Print Revolution and its Impact

•The time and labour required to produce each book


came down.

•The printing press, a new reading public


emerged. Reduced the cost of books, now a
reading public came into being.
•Knowledge was transferred orally. Before the
age of print books were not only expensive but
they could not be produced in sufficient
numbers.

But the transition was not so simple. Books


could be read only by the literate and the rates
of literacy in most European crematories were
very low, Oral culture thus entered print and
printed material was orally transmitted. And
the public hearing and reading became
intermingled

Religious Debates and the fear of Print

Print created the possibility of the wide


circulation of ideas.
Through the printed message, they could
persuade people to think differently and
introduced a new world of debate and
discussion.This has significance in the different
sphere of life.
Many were apprehensive of the effects that
the easier access to the printed world and the
wider circulation of books, could have on
people’s minds.

If that happened the authority of ‘valuable’


literature would be destroyed, expressed by
religious authorities and monarchs, as well as
many writers and artists, achievement of
religion areas of Martin Luther

. A new intellectual atmosphere and helped


spread the new ideas that led to the
reformation.

Print culture and the French Revolution:

Print the popularised ideas of the Enlightenment


thinkers. Collectively, their writings provided a critical
commentary or tradition, superstition and despotism.
Print created a new culture of dialogue and
debate. All values, forms and institutions were
re-evaluated and discussed by a public that
had become aware of the power of reason.

1780’s there was an outpouring of literature that


mocked the royalty and criticised their morality. In the
process, it raised questions about the existing social
order.

The print helps the spread of ideas. People did


not read only one kind of literature. If they
read the ideas of Voltaire and Rousseau, They
were also exposed to monarchic and church
propaganda

Print did not directly shape their minds, but it


did open up the possibility of thinking
differently
The Nineteenth Century (Women)

As primary education became compulsory


from the late nineteenth century. A large
number of new readers were especially
women.

Women became important as readers as well


as writers. Penny magazines were especially
meant for women, as were manuals teaching
proper behaviour and housekeeping

. In the nineteenth century, lending libraries in


England, lower middle-class people.
Sometimes self-educated working class people
wrote for themselves. Women were seen as
important readers. Some of the best-known
novelists were women: Jane Austin, the Bronte
sisters, George Eliot. their writings became
important in defining a new type of woman
Printing In India

•The printing press came to India with Portuguese


Missionaries in mid 16th century.

The first Tamil Book printed in Cochin in 1579


BC

•Weekly Magzine 'Bengal Gazette' started publication in 1780 BC.

•First printed edition of Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas came out in Calcutta in


1810 BC.

•Many newspapers in various languages started publication


in 1821-22 BC.
Hindi Printing began seriously in 1870 BC.

Conclusion
It is difficult to imagine the world without printed matter.
In fact, print shaped our contemporary world.
social lives and cultures changed with the coming of Print.

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