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Abstract
For a long time in China the making of paper from fibrous matter was attributed to Tsai Lun, a court official in the Eastern Han dynasty (A.D. 25-220), who was supposed to have invented it in A.D. 105. In later centuries he was memorialized by temples and statues of him.