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With more than 1,000 books stacked around her home in Foshan, South China s Guangdong Province, Wu Xiaozhu, a reading lover, decided to join a local online book-sharing platform so that other people could borrow from her vast collection.
Hillside verses Share CLOSE Tangshan Hill Pit Bookshop, the new and largest branch of Librairie Avant-Garde, is built on a former industrial site in Nanjing, Jiangsu province.[Photo provided to China Daily]
Librairie Avant-Garde s largest branch opens in Nanjing, with events paying homage to poetry, Yang Yang reports.
In April, a bunch of poets gathered at the new branch of Librairie Avant-Garde, Tangshan Hill Pit Bookshop, for the first poetry award initiated by the store.
Built on the ruins of a mine at the foot of the hill, about 4 kilometers from the nearest Wenquan (hot spring) village, in a suburb of Nanjing, Jiangsu province, it is the bookstore chain s 18th branch and largest, covering 1,300 square meters.