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Printing the Confucan Classics with 100,000 Pieces of Movable Type

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Models of Bi Sheng's revolving typecase tables from a museum in Beijing.

According to Needham, following in the foot steps of Wang Zhen, in 1322 the magistrate of Fenghua, Zhejiang province, named Ma Chengde, printed Confucian classics with movable type of 100,000 written characters organized on revolving type tables.

Needham, Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 5, Part 1, 208.

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