dec 31, 100 - DIBAO IN CHINA

Description:

Description: literally “reports from the [official] residences”, were a type of publications issued by central and local governments in imperial China.

History: Before the invention of moveable type printing they were hand-written or printed with engraved wooden blocks.[2] The introduction of
European-style Chinese language newspapers, along with the growing intersection of Chinese and global affairs generally, applied pressure for the Dibao to adapt, and circulation of the Beijing Gazettewas in the tens of thousands by the time publication ceased altogether with the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1911.

Special Features: The Maya developed their huun around the V century AD, in the same era that the Romans did, but their paper was more durable and a better writing surface than the papyrus.

Uses: They contained official announcements and news,[2] and were intended to be seen only by bureaucrats