Short answers, pulled from the story.
The first Chinese translations of Buddhist texts appeared between 58 and 75 CE during the reign of Emperor Ming. The Sutra of Forty-two Sections stands as the earliest known sutra translated into Chinese.
Monks from Central Asia like An Shigao and Kumārajīva brought these teachings to China while native monks such as Faxian and Xuanzang traveled to India to study Sanskrit texts directly. Kumārajīva lived between 343 and 413 CE and was a translator from Kuchan.
Only fourteen fascicles from the original Kaibao Canon survive today because the blocks were lost when the Northern Song capital fell in 1127. This project comprised 130,000 woodblocks organized according to the Kaiyuan Catalogue which lasted from 971 to 983 CE.
A second set of the Goryeo Tripitaka was carved from 1236 to 1251 using 81,258 woodblocks made from Betula schmidtii regal tree. These blocks remain stored today at Haeinsa temple in South Korea.
The Taishō Tripiñaka project ran from 1922 to 1934 with over 300 Japanese scholars working on it. Published in Tokyo between 1924 and 1934 this edition contains 100 volumes including 2,184 texts across fifty-five main volumes.