The happy gathering place of bookworms is naturally a comfortable place where ideas collide and merge. As an international city, Beijing naturally has many favorite reading places for bookworms at home and abroad.
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Santan Yin Yue, founded in 1988, is one of the earliest bookstores to realize the open-shelf sales of books, and also the earliest bookstore to do book signing, small concerts and cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries, and has become a pioneer in the construction of public space in the cultural circle. Li Shiqiang and Liu Yuansheng are the founders and operators of Santan Yin Yue, the first private bookstore in Beijing. Lao Liu and Lao Li didn't have any training in the shop, so they said, "Don't do to others what you don't want them to do to you." "Open-shelf reading will become a tradition in bookstores," the clerk was told. "You must encourage them to browse books there." "Besides, no matter how long they sit and watch, they are always welcome." To this end, they specially placed a rectangular big wooden table and several wooden stools in the center of the shop. It has also become a tourist attraction in Beijing.
On the opening day of the bookstore, 30 bookshelves circled around the house. The books on the bookshelf are as casual and decent as the light gray pullover on Lao Liu.
Three pools reflecting the moon aims to provide a place to exchange ideas. There are more and more door-to-door writers signing books and receiving foreign delegations, concerts and academic seminars. Lao Liu and Lao Li accepted some with pride and guilt, but refused more. They are willing to become experts in squeezing noodles of dozens of scholars in the Ford exchange program between China and the United States; American vice presidents, ambassadors and congressional representatives can talk with doctors, journalists or ordinary people in the teahouse on the second floor. Lacey Blake, an American independent producer, explained to the fifth generation directors that they were not familiar with independent producers, and the audience included Byrd and Yu Rongguang. Old artists who performed shadow play in Tangshan sang and performed behind the temporarily arranged stage, and stools and tables were removed. Everyone sat on the floor, barely accommodating 100 people to watch the play. Wan Yanhai, the first openly gay, held the first gay seminar in the bookstore, and the first freelance writer meeting was also held here. The Israeli ambassador who came to the store said, "Israel is small, but there are bookstores all over the street;" China is so big, there are restaurants everywhere, and there are too few bookstores. "
The first floor of the bookstore is a semi-underground bookstore, with books on all four walls and a circle of tables and chairs in the middle, where you can sit down and read. The teahouse is on the second floor, where most of the speeches and exchange activities are held. Of course, the first floor will be useful when there are many people.
Address: No.60 Fuxingmennei Street, Xicheng District
Telephone 0 10-660 1320
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