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Wang Zhen had been active in campaigns to overthrow the Qing empire, to build a strong and independent China, but he abandoned the messy (and violent) world of politics after the Republic was founded in 1912.
Jul 15, 2024 · Wang Zhen is best known for his usage of wooden movable type while he was a magistrate of Jingde in Anhui province from 1290 to 1301. His main contribution was improving the speed of typesetting with simple mechanical devices, along with the complex, systematic arrangement of wooden movable types.
Wang Zhen was one of the earliest chief eunuchs to have benefited from a literary and administrative education in the ‘Palace School for Eunuchs’ (內書堂Nei shu tang), which was established in 1426. He was from Shanxi.
A successful Shanghai businessman as well as a devout Buddhist, Wang Zhen is best known for his paintings of Buddhist figures in the calligraphic brush manner of his mentor, Wu Changshi (1844–1927).
Buddhist Sage was painted by Wang Zhen (also known as Wang Yiting). In China, the year of his birth was the “Sixth Year of the Tongzhi Period of the Great Qing” (1867 in the Western calendar); he died in the “Twenty-seventh year of the Chinese Republic” (1938).
Dec 31, 2018 · Wang Zhen’s primary innovation was a system that improved the speed and efficiency of typesetting. It had rotary tables to help typesetters quickly sort and process thousands of carved wooden blocks for use in a printing press.
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Wang Zhen (April 11, 1908[1] – March 12, 1993) was a Chinese political figure and one of the Eight Elders of the Chinese Communist Party. He was the 4th Vice President of China and served under Chinese Presidents Yang Shangkun and Li Xiannian.
