The Invention of Printing in China and Its Spread Westward

ancient Arabic bamboo began block printing British Museum Buddha Buddhist Buddhist printing capital Central Asia chapter characters charms Chinese printing Christian clay Confucian copies Crusades culture dharani Diamond Sutra earlier earliest early East edition Egypt emperor empire Empress Shotoku Encyclopedia European evidence Fêng Tao found at Tun-huang Gutenberg Han Dynasty Ilkhans imperial invention of printing issue Japan Japanese Jinghis Khan known Korea language large number later literature manuscript Marco Polo metal monasteries Mongol Mongol Empire movable type official pagodas paper money Pelliot period Persia playing cards printed books printers printing in China province quoted records reign roll rubbing Sanskrit script seal impressions Si-an-fu silk stamped statement stone inscriptions Sung Dynasty Szechuen T'ai Tsung T'ang Dynasty Tabriz Tangut Tao's Taoist textile printing thousand tion translation Ts'ai Lun Ts'in Tun-huang Turfan Turkestan Turkish typography Uigur Wang West wood wooden blocks writing