Answer:
(i) The imperial
state in China was, for a very long time, the major producer of printed
material.
(ii) China possessed a huge bureaucratic system
which recruited its personnel through the civil service examinations.
(iii) Textbooks for this examination were printed
in vast numbers, under the sponsorship of the imperial state. From the 16th
century, the number of candidates went up and that increased the volume of
print.
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