BUT MORE THAN BOOKS
1 min readAs most avid readers will tell you, encounterin a good book can be one of the most rewarding experiences known to man.
Zhuhai is justifiably a “reading city”, strewn with countless serene hideaways for book lovers. Wherever you turn, a bookstore is just around the corner. The city’s unique bookstore ecology eclipses many other cities in China that are already renowned cultural powerhouses in their own right.
It is one thing to fantasize about owning a bookstore that has a jumble of rooms encouraging browsers to meander all day long; for most people, it is another thing entirely to put these romantic thoughts into action. For dreamers in Zhuhai, however, the difference is not too much to handle; and it seems that this city has somehow been spared the widespread damage done to “brick-and-mortar”bookstores elsewhere by the outbreak of electronic books and online bookstores. Bookstores are one of the most prized possessions of Zhuhai- the Muse of the city; and the joy of reading is a tangible part of everyday life here.
In 2017, Amazon China ranked Zhuhai fourth among those cities that “most lovereading”. The city’s dizzying collection of fine bookstores sells more than books: it spreads the message that books and reading can bind lives as surely as any shared love, and adds a cultural quality to the social fabric of Zhuhai, where “no man is an island; every book is a world”.
