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Response to Ancient Printing

Response to Ancient Printing

By Piper Shiflet

Originally I assumed that a lecture like this wasn't worth listening to. Knowing the history of printing was not interesting to me, and I had learned a lot about this topic in pervious years during history or humanities. I was uninterested and quite distant for the first few minutes of class, I knew about the Han dynasty and the stamp seals, but when Mr. Miller began discussing a person named Bi Sheng, the inventor of the original movable type press, it came as a shock to me that Guttenberg had gotten all the credit for the, "first movable type press." 
I also found it quite interesting that the topic was brought up about how Chinese and English are so different, making the process of both "movable type presses," so different. Other than the fact that one was made from metal, and the other from wood, the languages were obviously built off of different structures. Chinese involves characters and English uses an alphabet. This didn't click in my mind until a fellow classmate pointed it out, and with Chinese being such a complicated language to learn, with roughly 20,000 characters in use, this mesmerizes me. 
Nonetheless I thought this teaching about the history of ancient printing was a very interesting topic to discuss, and since I thought I had learned so much about it beforehand, I was surprised at the amount of information that I wasn't aware of, and now I understand much more about the history of ancient printing. 

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