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What were the consequences and effects of widespread printing & verbal literacy in China during 11th century or later? In Europe, Gutenberg's printing & increased literacy resulted in big changes like the Protestant reformation. Has there been any equivalent cataclysm in China due to printing?

by /u/zediroth in /r/AskHistorians

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