Hua Sui, courtesy name Wenhui (文輝), art name Huitong (会通), was a Chinese scholar, engineer, inventor, and printer of the Ming dynasty. He belonged to the wealthy Hua family of Wuxi that was renowned throughout the region. Hua Sui is best known for creating China's first metal movable type printing in 1490 AD.
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A page from one of Hua Sui's books printed in 1490 using metal movable type.
The Chinese Diamond Sutra, the oldest known printed book in world history (868 AD), using woodblock printing.
Jiaozi (currency), 11th century paper-printed money from the Song dynasty.
The Bencao on traditional Chinese medicine; printed with woodblock in 1249, Song dynasty
A revolving table typecase with individual movable type characters arranged primarily by rhyming scheme, from Wang Zhen's book of agriculture, published 1313 CE.Writers born in the 1430s 6
About this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1439 to 1513 · aged 74
Written about in
9 languages
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