Tapping your fingers on the screen, your favorite books will be delivered to your door within a cou-ple of hours. Who would have thought that cultural consumption in China could become as easy as ordering a sandwich? Yet, it is now happening at many libraries across the country, including a most recent case, a books-to-go program that has been launched by the Chengdu Library in Chengdu, Southwest China s Sichuan Province.
When a deadly famine struck China in the early 1960s, the city evacuated thousands of children to remote herding communities in Inner Mongolia. Six decades later, they’re still there.