Mention the significance of imperial state of China in relation to printed material.

The significance of imperial state of China:

(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 civil service examinations.

(iii)Textbooks for this examination were printed in vast numbers under the sponsorship of the imperial state.
From the sixteenth century, the number of examination candidates went up and that increased the volume of print.