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Hua Sui
1439-1513Asia · 1439Most named place: China (approximate)
Scholar and printer
Hua Sui was a Chinese scholar and printer of Wuxi, Jiangsu province during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). He was a member of the wealthy Hua family that was renowned throughout the region and is best known for creating China's first metal movable type printing in 1490.
Hua Sui did not engage in scholarly pursuits until the age of fifty when he became so interested in books that he embarked on the first bronze-type printing venture. His publications contain the signature Hui Thung Kuan (Studio of Mastery and Comprehension), by which he meant that he had mastered the process of using movable type in printing. In about twenty years Hua Sui printed at least fifteen titles.
