Journal 3

In last week’s readings, I learnt about how China invented a style of typing chinese letters. And this week, the object shifted from China to Europe. Printing was such an important skill for them to benefit their society, culture, as well as the improvement of the technology.

I found how deadly dangerous the wars are to the cultural continuety, rather for literatures or anything else.

Module #2

In Chapter 3, we learned about ancient Chinese history about writings. It's fascinating that the ancient Chinese people were so brilliant to create amazing inventions, which I didn't know about even my family was originally from China. The printing techniques ancient China invented still holds a critical place in the hall of fame in human history. Before the invention of printing, the spread of culture mainly relied on handwritten books. Copying by hand is time-consuming, troublesome, and easy to make mistakes and omissions. It not only hinders the development of culture but also brings undue losses to the spread of culture. Seals and stone carvings provide direct empirical enlightenment to printing, and the method of rubbing paper on stone tablets directly points out the direction for engraving printing. China has undergone two development stages in block printing and movable type printing, offering a gift to human social development.

This is me!

Hi all,

My name is Stephen Wei, and I live in Los Angeles right now!

I'm an art&design: games and playable media major at UCSC. Graphic design connects to my major very close, which gives me the motivation to learn about its history!

Introducing myself

Hi all,

My name is Stephen Wei, and I live in Los Angeles right now!

I'm an art&design: games and playable media major at UCSC. Graphic design connects to my major very close, which gives me the motivation to learn about its history!