If the expo serves as any indication, Shanghai has considerably more book enthusiasts than I had suspected, even though just a couple of days earlier The Atlantic had published an article about the decline of reading in China.
For the LA Review of Books blog, Maura Elizabeth Cunningham covers the Shanghai Book Fair.
From “reprinted school texts from the 1950s and ’80s” to translations of English-language books about China, it sounds absolutely wild.
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