This is woodblock printing, an ancient printing technique that propelled human civilization. As Buddhism prevailed in China during the ... to produce a woodblock print. Carving lies at the center ...

For more than 2,000 years, woodblock prints have captured and catalogued ... There was a time when hardly a town along China’s wealthy, densely popu­lated eastern flank didn’t have a shop ...

Nearly four centuries before Johannes Gutenberg produced the first Bible on a printing press, monks and artisans in China were drawing on their ... translate and print Buddhist scripture.

Xu Jiahui, a national inheritor of Liangping woodblock New Year painting, colors a woodblock print at his workshop ... currently being exhibited at the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum ...

Few art forms are as quintessentially Japanese as the woodblock print. Yet its roots are not purely indigenous, and its development in the last decades of the 17th century owes much to China.