Nirupama Chandrasekhar
@niruchandra.bsky.social
UCSB PhD student, studying Okinawan tourism, colonialism, indigeneity, and public memory.
You aren't wrong! China (and Japan and Korea) all had woodblock printing presses that could stamp a whole page! But yeah, I think a mixture of storage issues (difficult to store a whole book's worth of printing blocks) and other factors about how economical it was led to its decline for a while.
July 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
You aren't wrong! China (and Japan and Korea) all had woodblock printing presses that could stamp a whole page! But yeah, I think a mixture of storage issues (difficult to store a whole book's worth of printing blocks) and other factors about how economical it was led to its decline for a while.