Hu Zhengyan
Born
in
Anhui
Province,
Hu
Zhengyan
moved
to
Nanjing
in
1619
and
established
the
Ten
Bamboo
Studio,
which
served
not
only
as
an
academic
publishing
house
but
also
as
a
meeting
place
for
like-minded
artists.
Located
just
to
the
north
of
the
National
Academy
in
Nanjing,
the
Ten
Bamboo
Studio
catered
heavily
to
the
academic
market,
producing
countless
academic
and
medical
texts
and
primers
like
the
Shi
Zhu
Zhai.
These
were
some
of
China’s
first
publications
printed
in
color,
using
a
technique
called
assorted
block
printing.
This
method
was
lengthy,
painstaking
work,
often
requiring
over
thirty
different
blocks
and
up... Read More
to
seventy
impressions
to
create
a
single
image.
The
results,
however,
were
breathtaking.
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