The spread of movable type printing in Europe

1839, James Legge, a missionary from London, England, moved Chinese movable type printing and printing machines from Huaying College in Malacca and its printing plant to Hong Kong. Far Wide Newspaper, the first Chinese newspaper in Hong Kong, was printed and distributed by Huaying College Chinese Letterpress Printing House. At that time, China movable type cast by Huaying Painting Academy was world-famous: an imperial envoy from Sand King, the French Society in Paris, and the Singaporean government. Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Shanghai Daotai, Prime Minister Yamen of Qing Dynasty, etc. They all bought China movable type or a full set of movable type copper molds cast by Huaying College, which was the beginning of westerners' introduction to China with China movable type casters. 1843, maddox, Mu and Ai, missionaries from London, England, founded Shanghai Mohai Library, which was the earliest printing institution in Shanghai with western-style China movable type printing equipment. Movable type books published by Mohai Library include Elijah Coleman Bridgman's Great American Magazine and so on. 1873 Jacob, Dean of Huaying College, returned to his hometown in Scotland; Wang Tao bought the China Movable Type Printing House in the former site of Huaying College, and set up the Zhonghua Printing General Administration on the 29th in hollywood road, the first Huaben Printing House in the world to print books with western-style China movable type. Circular Daily, founded by Wang Tao 1874, is the world's first Chinese-funded daily printed with western-style China movable type.