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- Beijing Museums, Book stores/Book Bars, Bars, Special Attractions
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To taste a real livelier Beijing,
you may be well suggested to take part in the viva of this
city, just at your leisure getting to know your travel accompanies-once saying hi to them, the strangeness immediately goes away- It's also a core part of Beijing's tradition to encourage free minds&thoughts communicating, despite of disparities in languages, cultural backgrounds or religious orientations. Or at least, the city is a seedbed providing quite a few quiet, nice places where, very likely you may spend all the afternoon in the cosy sofa, by large bright windows and plants, sipping your black coffee, reading books in your native language, a novel, fashion magazines, or art volumes...Under such comfortably homy amenities, casual passer-bys may run into ya to talk of some far and remote topic, but your travel will never feel lonely...The Bookworm Library-
Beijing's unique micro-library housing 1'600 books, hand-picked from cross the south of England to over 14'000 non-fictions, Beijing&China relevant materials and books-biography, history, philosophy, current affairs, travel and children books. It is also a place hosting book talks, writers releasing new books, book members discussions and activities.
Address: Building 4, Nan sanlitun Rd, Chaoyang District
Tel:65869507 E-mail:books@beijingbookworm.comThe ancient book store in Nanluogu Alley- Chuanyun(literally meaning passing fortune along) Bookstore -
cosy and nice, selling books in humane art fields, which is a site especially collecting creative art publishcations. Address: Just wander along the Alley, it'll show up. Numerous other book bars and book stores are dispersed half-hidden over turning corners of the maze-like alleys here, actually most cafes provide with a handsome storage of old books..just like one day i passed a tooth-like small bar, peeping at piles of Lonely Planet books and National Geography mags on the floor-anyone in there free to read. And these bars are usually open from morning 10 when sunshine just starts to brighten and warm the book shelves; day-time here is always quiet, only with singing birds that are hidden from ancient trees.
Another feature is there are some underground theaters in the Alley too, staging on experimental plays and at nights, playing special movies.
Beijing Guanghezuoyong(literally Photosynthesis or O2Sun) Bookstore
- O2Sun is a chain bookstore having numerous branches in different districts of Beijing. Major ones include: Branch at No.88, Jiangguo Rd, Chaoyang District Tel:85802786; Branch at No.1 Tsinghuajiayuan(in Tsinghua Uni's neighborhood), Wudaokou, Haidian District, Tel:82863033 Cosy nice bookstore,also has beverages services and sofa for reading.Beijing Shidai Guanghua Booksore(times and splendor) - Not that cosy but has decent dim-lighted reading ambience, hosting a complete collection of hard-copy books of original editions, but expensive. It's also a chain store having branches in every district.
Beijing Longzhimei(Medium for dragon literally) Bookstore - Chain stores, specially for advertisement design, arts, vision field. Housing amazingly delicate art&vision books of original edition. Also selling various foreign art and fashion magazines. Mostly located in building complex without independent shop. Visitors there are more like an underground crazy artists party.
Sikaole(Scholar) Books - A book store with design of luxe, more like a book exhibition hall, but special. Address: 4th&5th floor in Xindong'an Plaza shopping mall, Wangfujing St.
Lubo Bookstore(in memory of Luxun-one'f China's greatest men of letters) - Located at the entry of the Alley where Luxun former residence is, it boasts a complete collection of Luxun's works, and treasured books accomplished by famous Chinese writers.
Address:2 tiao, Gongmen Entry, Funei St., Xicheng district.Sculpting in Time(Diaokeshiguang) - Close to Beijing University, also a cafe, with light Jazz music and cosy evironment, very popuar among college students. Books there are not for sale; its more like a library. Address: at Southern gate of Beijing Institute of Technology.