A refuge for bookworms & the broken-hearted
By Yang Yang |
China Daily |
Updated: 2021-01-16 12:22
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Wu reads in a chair in front of Dongguan Library.[Photo provided to China Daily]
A migrant worker's 12-year relationship with a local institution underscores the social importance of libraries
It was dusk in late November in subtropical Guangdong province. Cool winds had dispersed the perennial shrouding humidity.
In the well-lit sitting room of a bungalow in an alley in Nancheng town of Dongguan, Wu Guichun, 54, was eating a 15-yuan ($2.3) takeaway dinner on a desk. It consisted of a box of steamed rice, a box of vegetables and three kinds of stir-fried meats as well as a boiled pickled duck egg.