Unit 1 Ch 5 : Print Culture and the Modern World — Social Studies STD 10 — Question
CBSE BoardEnglish MediumSTD 10Social StudiesUnit 1 Ch 5 : Print Culture and the Modern World5 Marks
Question
How did a new reading culture bloom in China?
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Answer
By 17th century, print was no longer used just by scholar officials. Merchants used print in their everyday life, as they collected trade information.
Reading increasingly became a leisure activity.
The new readership preferred fictional narratives, poetry, autobiographies, anthologies of literary masterpieces and romantic plays.
Rich women began to read and many women began publishing their poetry and plays. Wives of scholar-officials published their works and courtesans wrote about their lives.
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