>>509933827>woodblock printingYou mean the same type of printing every single place had? When I looked up the first Chinese compass it turns out it was just lodestone used for feng shui, they didn't use it for navigation at all until much later. The moveable type printing was something else entirely. If China invented printing then why don't they have a system that benefits mass production of books? Chinese back then prior to the 20th century language reforms was borderline cuneiform, they had thousands of characters, you'd need to put all of them into a typeface just to print books. The language was more used for inscriptions and scrolls than anything else, virtually every Chinese classic had no paper version until the 17th century after Jesuits entered the Qing court. Hell the Kangxi radicals themselves only existed after the 17th century prior to this the language is near incomprehensible.