A New Start for Chinese Printing
When “Made in China” products started to spread across the world, people started to form impressions about this large “world factory.” These three words, “Made in China,” became a symbol of low price and low quality. With the advent of super technologies such as the world’s fastest trains, 5G, and aerospace technologies, many today have developed a more positive attitude. I am not saying everyone in the world loves “Made in China”—there are still plenty of cheap, low-quality products to be found—but China-made goods are becoming identified with efficient manufacturing, high quality, and reliability. Dating back to the Tang Dynasty, woodblock printing became widely used. Somewhere between 1041 and 1048, […]