Leisure time with a small literary atmosphere
Bookstore features: This bookstore tends to remind those who have lived in Shanghai of the Ferry Bookstore in the Jing'an district. Both are equally small and sophisticated, with a focus on humanities books, but this bookstore is better in terms of its decor with a small literary atmosphere. Walking up to the entrance, you can see announcements of recent book clubs, and regular reading activities add to the sophisticated cultural flavor of the place. If you have nothing else to do, ask a few people to sit around, choose a good book, sip tea, read, very much like a fireplace and knees. There are also frequent cultural and academic events held here.
Special recommendation: lake blue surface, rattan chairs and white sofas, the most suitable for a lazy afternoon and a lazy intellectuals. Historical flavor and literary accent of antique furniture, fresh and simple white lattice bookshelf above, is a row of books on literature, art, humanities, philosophy. Floor lamps and thought-provoking warm light, yellow sunflowers and a variety of eye-catching greenery, sprinkled with slanting sunlight on the large windows, full of full of books. Sit down on the wicker chairs by the window, pick up a book of any kind, order a cup of coffee or black tea, and instantly enjoy a quality and quantity of reading. ReadEasyCave encourages all guests to borrow books without a membership card, and the deposit is the price of the book. The deposit is the price of the book. There is a two-week return limit, no limit on the number of books, and one-third of the price of the borrowed book is charged as the borrowing fee. Books can be borrowed from the library, including literature, art, fiction, etc. Magazines and Hong Kong edition books are not available for borrowing. The library is closed on Mondays and is open Tuesday through Sunday from 14:00 to 22:30. Currently, Read E-Hole offers coffee, tea and juice, and you can become a member with a one-time purchase of 300 RMB, or with a cumulative purchase of 1,000 RMB, you can get a 10% discount on tea. Membership stored-value cards start at 1,000 yuan, and you can get a 15% discount on tea.
103, Building 5, China World Apartments, 89 Jianguo Road, Chaoyang District, Hours: 14:00-22:30 (6530 5675)
Blue Sheep Bookstore
An underground distribution center for literary and movie lovers
Bookstore Features: 200 meters north of Tsinghua's west gate, in an undiscoverable alley, the Blue Sheep Bookstore has an eye-catching yellow signboard, and is located in the center of the building. But for those who love literary movies, the few dark rooms here are the most wonderful paradise. Blue Sheep Bookstore mainly deals in literary books, with a lot of movies and movie-related stuff. Push open the wooden gate and walk under a persimmon tree planted in the patio, the main room with red curtains is the café, and the side room is a small book bar. Movie screenings are held here from time to time, and people come together to drink coffee, watch a movie, and make a few remarks about the movie afterward.
Special Recommendation: In addition to some movie and literary books and magazines, there are also a lot of hard-to-find literary movie discs ($7 a disc) and sets of famous directors' works. The number of discs is not huge, and the frequency of updating is not very fast, so it takes almost 20 minutes to go through them one by one, but you can always find surprises. Not to mention the careful categorization, many of the discs come with an introduction written by the store owner, which is really touching in terms of sincerity. Teachers and students from Tsinghua University often come here, and after a lot of noise, they swept away a large number of disks and books. The black-and-white postcard rack, which occupies half the wall, is also worth a look. Stills from Zu and Jim, Andy Warhol and Sinead O'Connor ...... are just about all the icons of the literary youth on these postcards (which cost 3 yuan a piece).
No. 3, Shuimo New District, Haidian District, 200 meters north of Tsinghua's west gate, past the gas station, in the second hutong on the right side of the road, open 10:30-24:00 (6265 5069 )
One-Way Street Library (Yuanmingyuan store)
Once a week, a chance to talk to a famous person
Bookstores Features: For college students and general readers, this is the best place to get up close and personal with celebrities and talk to them. Founded by Xu Zhiyuan and other well-known media professionals, One Way Street Bookstore has been organizing open and free salons every weekend since 2006, inviting celebrities from various fields to come over for talks, book signings or concert promotions, and interacting with readers in the closest possible way. Lin Xi, Chen Danqing, Lai Shengchuan and many others are among its guests.
Special Recommendation: Late spring and early summer are the best times to visit One Way Street. Step into One Way Street's main store in Yuanmingyuan at this time of year, and you'll be greeted by gray brick walls covered in green vines, lush persimmon trees, and kittens that slip by your feet without a word. In the courtyard, a glass-fronted coffee table reflects the sky and clouds, a bat-shaped lounge chair stretches out its arms in the sunshine, and Club 8's fresh and psychedelic albums play on the stereo. This courtyard is the courtyard where Xu Zhiyuan drank Heineken and listened to Xu Wei sighing about how easy it is to get happiness in life, and the persimmon tree is the persimmon tree that a listener jumped up in excitement at the climax of Xichuan's poetry reading. In the long, narrow storefront, even the sunlight is still, and the air is covered with the faint scent of ink and dust. One whole wall is lined with tall bookshelves the same length as the storefront, and on the other side are sofas and coffee tables for readers to rest and read with wireless internet access. In such a good season, it is recommended that you bring a book to sit in their yard, away from the hustle and bustle, and enjoy the joy and tranquility that nature and books can bring you. However, it should be noted that books that are not checked out in the store are not allowed to be brought to the courtyard.
Inside the parking lot at the east gate of Yuanmingyuan, Zhongguancun North Road, Haidian District, hours: 10:00-21:00 (6257 0357 )
Exchange and gathering bookstore
Bookworms
Enjoying English-language books in between bites of food and drink
Bookstore features: It's hard to say if it's a mini-library or a cafe where you can read, because here you can not only read, but also eat without distractions, a variety of simple food and books are as delightful as the first, just cold and not warm enough to improve the attitude of the service. The location is quite good, the tone is quiet enough, in the Sanlitun bar street in a quiet and secluded place, outside the first look is a large warehouse, artistic temperament reminiscent of 798. look around are mainly in English books in foreign languages, most of them are in English original, so 80% of the guests to come here are foreigners. The store's collection is said to have reached 16,000 books from different English-speaking countries, about China, about history and geography, about culture. The store is specially divided into smoking and non-smoking areas, with decor, atmosphere and cultural flavor of art alternative, suitable for reading, chatting on the Internet, drinking coffee, eating simple western food, bringing their own computers to work overtime, being alone, killing time, dawdling, and waiting for someone.
Special Recommendation: This place can also be considered as a place to practice speaking and make reading buddies, a rare English-oriented leisure space that combines a library, bookstore, restaurant, cafe and bar. A person to see tired to eat, eat and casually chat with the readers around a few words, like-minded will sympathize with each other, the words do not agree can also be laughed off, continue to read or surf the Internet, the owner of the personal collection of books is one of the interests of many readers. Currently, the Old Bookworm organizes regular events such as mini-concerts, author talks, book signings, poetry nights and discussion parties. The trance-like shadows and light of books under the floor lamps next to the big red sofas are very much in the flavor of a European literary salon. For a library card, the half-yearly membership fee is roughly CNY200; the full-yearly membership fee is CNY300. Private parties, staff gatherings, lunches, and delivery are also available.
Building 4, Sanlitun South Street, Chaoyang District, Gongti Junction (6586 9507)
Yufeng Bookstore
A bookstore for women's souls
Bookstore features: Even if you happen to pass by this bookstore, you may be surprised to see the deep purple sign on the front that reads, "Let your footsteps stay, let your heart walk. "You'll probably stop in your tracks when you see the deep purple color of the sign in front of this bookstore. Rain Maple is a membership-based women's bookstore, which not only displays and sells books with women's themes, but also displays a cozy and feminine atmosphere in the store's layout and customer service. The store door is small and cozy, with a white fence, a signboard with a bookish atmosphere, and the store is decorated in shades of ambiguous and virtuous purple. Soft enough and fine enough arrangement, downright feminine, a man will certainly be a little uncomfortable when he arrives here. There are enough books for women to read: books written for women, books women need to read, books written by women. Including literature, art, movies, female psychology, beauty, consumerism, etc.; there is also a special women's counter, with clearly categorized shelves of books by both domestic and foreign women authors.
Special Recommendation: Because it is a women's bookstore, there are many women. When you're not doing anything, you can curl up on a big purple sofa with soft, loved ones, and in the midst of the melodious music and air-conditioning, you can randomly pull a book from the shelves and read it. When you're in the middle of a book, it's only natural that you'll have a few words to say to your female friends, so the probability of meeting a reading buddy is high. There's also a children's reading space where moms can bring their babies and sit on purple cushions with randomly slanted stuffed animals and cute books to enjoy. There's also a movie screening room at the far end, where you can watch nostalgic or up-to-date movies on the weekends. A bunch of sexagenarians can have poetry sessions and comment on the movie they just saw.
Currently, you can become a member of Rain Maple Bookstore by paying an annual fee of 380 yuan, and a discounted annual fee of 318 yuan for undergraduate students. Members can read new books without charge, a one-time loan of three books, unlimited number of times, unlimited time. VIP membership card is currently 638 yuan per person, but the recent price increases due to price increases may raise the price. VIP members can borrow five books and two disks at a time, the family if the children can be presented with a child card (children's card). In the members' area, you can read and surf the Internet without charge, and lemonade is available free of charge, while other beverages are at the same price as in supermarkets. The screening room is free for all and can accommodate 20-30 people.
Haidian District, Chengfu Road, No. 69, next to the typhoon shelter, opening hours 10:00-23:00 (6270 1928)
Leisurely reading bookstore
East 8 Timezone
Creative exchange reading community
Bookstore features: Timezone 8 was a Hui people's cafeteria until 2003, before it became a "time zone". Timezone 8 was a Muslim cafeteria until 2003, when it became the East 8 Bookstore. Inside the red arsenal building is a rich artistic atmosphere, and the bookstore specializes in three main categories: photography, architecture, and Chinese art, with Chinese and English editions, and more than 90 percent of the books are imported in English - a major feature of the bookstore. In addition to these three categories of books, the store also has books on movies and graphic design, all of which are very professional. The shelves are full of the latest photography, design and architecture books, including Chinese contemporary art, design, architecture, decoration, photography, picture books and foreign magazines, which are almost synchronized with foreign countries; except for Chinese contemporary art, the rest of them are all original books, and you can also order foreign original books here on behalf of the bookstore.
Special Recommendations: Cafes, open-air courtyards, and five-star chef-driven western restaurants are the other half of East 8's landscape, which can be summed up as a welcoming community of books, food, drink, and local creative exchanges, with restaurants offering unique menu designs or participating in regular bilingual art talks and book launches. The restaurant offers well-cooked food at prices ranging from RMB 40-90 per person. Once a month the store is replaced with new books, which the owner says is to keep the store fresh for guests. The bookstore screens art films on Tuesdays and organizes book launches and artist talks every Saturday night, all in bilingual Chinese and English for the art lovers. The café's famous Italian coffee is praised.
No. 4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, 400 meters inside the 798 Factory, red bungalow on the left hand side (8456 0336)
Photosynthesis Bookstore (Shui Mu Store)
Social fresher's rechargeable place
Bookstore features: For young white-collar workers who just work and don't detest the petty-cash mood, Photosynthesis is the best place to go. Bosa nova music floats in the air all year round, and the selection of books favors the popular but never the vulgar. For young people in the early stages of their careers who need to acquire a variety of knowledge and social skills, there's definitely a book here.
Special Recommendation: Photosynthesis Mizuki is located in Wudaokou, a neighborhood that is not lacking in youthful hormones. The store itself is a wonderful mix: steps between the first and second floors lead to a clothing store selling bohemian women's clothing, and there's a quiet bar across the hall on the second floor, not to mention the sweet creamy café on the second floor, all of which seem to announce that youthful Wudaokou is never cold. The best thing about this place is that the first floor mainly sells magazines, bestsellers and creative bazaar products, and like Taipei's Eslite Bookstore, it is a good place for lonely urban night-goers to find warmth and light, and to spend the whole long boring night. Here, you can apply for a membership card with a one-time purchase of NT$380 or an accumulation of NT$500 in small bills within a year, and enjoy a 10% discount on books; the Happy Reading Time Café on the second floor has small table lamps, sofas, guest books and Wi-Fi. In the evening when the lights come on, a person comes here, orders a cup of "jasmine tablets", looks out of the window across the street with Lisa Ono's playing and singing like a dream-like city railway, you can taste the city night sky "mobile festival".
Haidian District, Wudaokou Huaqing Jiayuan Building 1, opening hours: 09:00-24:00 (8286 3032)
Perfect place to find a book
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Wansheng Book Garden
The bookstore of the world's Google
Features: If you're looking for a book, you'll want to check out the bookstore, but if you're looking for something to read, you'll want to do that. >Bookstore Features: If you have any questions that you don't understand, ask google; if you have any books on culture that you can't find, then go to All Saints Book Park. The landmark Wansheng Book Garden is only 200 meters away from Google China's headquarters, but you can't find any science or computer books here. But if you're looking for books on culture, history, politics, economics and more, you've come to the right place. This treasure-hole of a bookstore is full of books, and there's a wide variety of them to satisfy the requirements of even the most demanding scholar.
Special Recommendation: The bookstore does a great job of categorizing books so that even though there are books all over the place, readers don't have the experience of wandering around a bookstore and not being able to find the book they want. Have come to a few customers generally know how to categorize the books here, probably clear what books in what shelves, to the bookstore even without the help of the clerk can quickly find the books you want, it is like a bookstore in the world of google. and in the vicinity of the book you want to buy, you can always find one or two did not think of buying or did not know the same type of book, often read them and find them very much to your liking. to your liking. So for readers who want to expand their knowledge in a particular area but don't know where to start, this is the place to go.
The Wake-Up Café at All Saints is also a great place to go, spacious, dimly lit, quiet, with wireless Internet access and good drinks. There are four or five very good kittens bouncing around. In Waking Guest, you can't help but meet a famous reader or the owner himself, Liu Suri, chatting and laughing in a loud voice. Here is also a very reading atmosphere, sitting here with a book just bought from Halloween, reading in the dim light, without realizing it, you can read a small half of the book, and at home pick up the book to turn over a page or two and then thrown away the loose mood is completely different.
Haidian District, No. 123 Chengfu Road, business hours: bookstore 10:00-22:00, wake up guest coffee 10:00-24:00 (6276 8755)
Hanfenlou
Ancient collection of books to find literature and history books
Bookstore features: located in Beijing 36 Wangfujing Street, about 1,000 meters north past the Xindong'an Shopping Mall, you can see the store full of books through the glass windows. A small gray and white building with a refreshing style, the store's name plaque is inscribed by Mr. Qigong, with a business area of about 1,500 square meters, the store is bright and elegant, with more than 40,000 kinds of books on the shelves, including mainly tool books and humanities and social sciences books, which are related to economics and management, sociology, philosophy, politics, law, military, history, geography and tourism, linguistics, literature, education, journalism and media, ancient Canonical books, art theory and practice of all aspects, while opening a business version of the 'fine books area.
Special Recommendation: Hanfenlou is a collection of books from the Shanghai period of the Commercial Press, which dates back to 1904. At that time, the Hundred Days Reform figures, Hanlin born Zhang Yuanji in charge of the Commercial Press editorial work, in the editorial work, struggling to find good books, so the creation of Hanfen building, to contain good books, knowledge of the fragrance of the meaning. 1909, officially named Hanfen building. Hanfen building from the collection of good books and ancient books, and then both Chinese and foreign books. It is very quiet, very neat and orderly, and downstairs there are special counters for business triplets and the China Bookstore. The staff is also very professional. There is no special meeting room, but there are three lectures a month throughout the year, which are more cultural in nature, so it's best to call before you go.
36 Wangfujing Street, Dongcheng District (8511 7603)
Sanmeishuoya
Orthodox and serious, with a scholarly atmosphere
Bookstore features: a real-life version of Mr. Lu Xun's "Sanmeishuoya," which has been open for twenty-one years in a secluded hutong across from the National Palace of Culture and is now a tourist attraction in Beijing. It has become a tourist attraction in Beijing. The first floor is semi-underground, with books on all sides and a circle of tables and chairs in the center where you can sit and read. The second floor is a teahouse, where you can drink tea and talk. The atmosphere is cool, not many people come, but all have quality and quantity, especially serious intellectuals, very much the spirit and atmosphere of contemporary Chinese writers. The books here are mainly humanities, social sciences, academic, world famous books and other books with a strong literati flavor. You can also find rare old editions from years ago, beautiful books from the 80's from the design of the binding to the content, or some of the early 90's for the collection of fine publishing books here.
Special Recommendation: Come here with nostalgia; bestsellers don't come here. Sammy's Bookstore only provides you with books that stand the test of time and taste, books that you can't put down even after pondering them over and over again. It is said that the bookstore was able to come out quite a lot of trouble, bookstore founders Li Shiqiang, Liu Yuansheng and his wife went through a lot of trouble to find funds, writers Chen Ming, Ding Ling and his wife, Xiao Jun, and many scholars and friends in the funds to help.
Writers' book signings, receptions for foreign visiting groups, concerts, academic seminars, there are many real quality events here. It's been visited by the U.S. vice president, ambassadors, independent producers and directors, and it also hosts shadow theater veterans from Tangshan who sing and perform on a makeshift stage. Wan Yanhai, the first openly gay man, held his first seminar on homosexuality at the bookstore, and the first gathering of freelance writers was also held here. Twice a week, concerts or author signings and panels have been held. 21 years, except for certain times when the store has been closed, there has been no interruption.
No. 60 Fuxingmennei Street, Xicheng District
The Book Café Experience for Readers
Pa Bonny (a female screenwriter)
Books ate that sound
The Read Easier Cave is a tiny storefront that says BOOK FUN, and there's a handwritten notice at the door from the recent book club. Inside, a small, a girl in red dress in scrubbing coffee cups, since the beginning, I have not seen her face. I didn't see her face the whole time. She was busy with her work and I was busy with mine. Sitting down, reading books, there are books that I want to buy, there are picture books that I want to read but can't afford, there are all kinds of precious Hong Kong and Taiwan books, niche literary youth magazines, there are also light novels, pleasing to the eye, no brainer. The music is light, so light that you can't feel it. Walking into the first floor, I realized that there is something else: a small space naturally separated by bookshelves, which can be covered, but not isolated. There is an ink-blue sofa for lying down and reading; a small loft for Internet access, for a lonely Apple computer; a duo for conversation, with an aquarium acting as a screen, with playful gold and red clown fish.
There is a pile of good-looking white paper bound books for sale at the door, with different covers, all called "distraction". When I came out, I realized that it's not called a bookstore, it's called a bookstore. Really, some bookstores are like tour groups, greedy and enthusiastic, always trying to stuff me with too much unselective information. But message is not the same as vision. Some bookstores are like churches, so tall and imposing that you have to worship the hardcover covers and the gold lettering and the dust of the masterpieces. But sometimes, classic does not equal taste. A bookstore is different, a bookstore is more than just a space to host books, it offers a space for the soul and a time to wander off to actually focus. It is careful, prudent, selective and no trace, born with the heart and appropriate should be divided. It is intimate, ironic, close to the human heart. It feeds your heart, feeds your gas.
Li Ningchun (head of March Space Gallery)
My reading map
On a regular basis, I like to read at home. I often go to the Sanlian Bookstore to buy books, and I spend a lot of time flipping through, browsing and selecting. There are too few bookstores in China with such a good overall atmosphere. For the sake of speed and cheapness, I also buy books online at Joyo, but whenever I think that if everyone buys books online, there will be fewer and fewer bookstores around us, so I still go to the bookstore as much as I can, even if it is a bit expensive. Art books or 798 bookstands are better value, very good albums in Europe to spend two or three times the price, here is very cheap to get, super value.
The Bookworm is a good place to read, but it's mainly a place to gather friends and chat online, so maybe we all like to have books in the same atmosphere? The clientele there is more international, and the books are more varied, with some foreign magazines and travel books from various countries available for reference. In the first few years of East 8 Time Zone Bookstore, there were more art books, and many friends used to read standing up in the bookstore, but now the bookstore has reduced half of the space to the restaurant, I think it is because the profit of the restaurant is much bigger than the books, right? The atmosphere is fine, except that the outside dining room is used in conjunction with the coffee, which is usually very noisy. Also, the lingering smell of grease from the kitchen is a bit of a bummer.