In remote areas of South and East China's country side, villagers in Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces are still practising papermaking techniques nearly 2,000 years old. They owe their skill to ...

Most scholars cite the invention of paper as occurring in AD 105 when an eunuch in the Han court named Cai Lun created a papermaking process that was reported to the Chinese Emperor by Ts’ai Lun, an ...