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This Looks Hot: ‘Pretty Ugly’ Zine Launches This Saturday

2021-10-15 - By SmSh

Cool art, good times, and free booze from your friends at PLUSMINUS Read more...
Where the Wild Things Were

2021-08-24 - By Lisa Movius

Chao Jiaxing’s Under Construction anthology memorializes Shanghai’s independent art scene Read more...
Nerd News: Excellent Japanese Bookstore is Opening in Shanghai This Winter

2020-08-13 - By Songbei Zhang

Big, big, really big book news. Beloved Japanese chain Tsutaya Books will open a Shanghai branch. According to an announcement at the 2020 Shanghai Book Fair, this Read more...
Books Are Back! Nine of Shanghai's Newest and Coolest Bookstores

2020-05-22 - By Songbei Zhang

Nine places that combine great design and the printed word. Read more...
This Little Bookstore Near Xintiandi Champions Young Chinese Illustrators

2019-11-14 - By Yalan Bao

Hey, here’s a cool off-the-beaten path shop. Zzcetistar Bookstore first opened in 2016 in a traditional Read more...
Children's Book Fair Is On This Weekend, With More Than 60k New Books

2019-11-12 - By Yalan Bao

The 7th Shanghai International Children's Book Fair is on this weekend, with more than 60,000 new books, including 20,000 books not in Chinese, presented at the fair. As ever, it’s... Read more...
This Bookstore Just Opened 52 Floors Off The Ground and There’s a Queue to Get In

2019-08-18 - By SmSh

Literature has gone to new heights in Shanghai, with the opening of the city’s highest bookstore on Tuesday. Fifty-two floors up, the Duoyun... Read more...
[Report From The Ground]: Shanghai Book Fair

2018-08-17 - By Jin Qian

Book lovers unite! The annual feast of cheap books -- 20% off, at least! – has arrived: the Shanghai Book Fair kicked off on Wednesday at the Shanghai Exhibition Center. Beat... Read more...
Check Out this New Bookstore with a Pretty Good English-Language Section

2018-05-09 - By Sarah Boorboor

There's this new bookstore, Sinan Books , a 3-floor bookstore housed in a historic building, one to add to Read more...
[The List]: 11 English-Language Bookshops That Have Survived This Long

2018-03-12 - By Alex Panayotopoulos

Books and magazines! Here's where to get them in English, in Shanghai. Read more...
Shanghai International Literary Festival Releases March 2018 Programme

2018-02-23 - By Morgan Short

Books. Discussions. Insight. Conversation. Ideas. Cocktails . The Shanghai International Literary Festival returns to Read more...
Shaving in the Dark, Shanghai Soup and Other Community Events this Week

2017-12-13 - By Sarah Boorboor

If you need a break from all the holiday cheer, here are some community events that look real good this week. Tonight Shaving in the Dark's hosting an animated movie night and tomorrow will... Read more...
[Inside Education]: A Conversation with Lenora Chu: Author, Journalist, and Mom

2017-10-31 - By Sarah Boorboor

The award-winning reporter opens up about her new book 'Little Soldiers: An American Boy, A Chinese School and the Global Race to Achieve.' Read more...
M Literary Residency Now Accepting Applicaitons

2017-10-17 - By Andrew Cruz

Aspiring writers, literary dynamos, worldly bookish types, here's a great opportunity to sustain your craft on The Bund for six to eight weeks: the Read more...
[On The Ground] Jululu Indie Book Fair

2017-07-18 - By Sarah Boorboor

This week, there’s a pop up book shop with 40 indie publications to check out. It’s the Jululu Indie Book Fest —but it’s actually happening on Shaanxi Bei Lu. All week long, the second floor of... Read more...
New Taobao Regulations Banning 'Overseas Publications' to Take Effect March 10

2017-03-06 - By Alex Panayotopoulos

In the continuing game of ban brinksmanship, Taobao published regulations last week stating that, after March 10, vendors will not be... Read more...
Shanghai International Literary Festival to Return in March

2017-01-11 - By Morgan Short

Bookish types, you'll be pleased to learn that the Shanghai International Literary Festival , which has hitherto hosted in luminaries like Gore Vidal, John Ralston Saul, Amy Tan, Jan Morris, Simpsons... Read more...
Read This: New Street Photo Book Captures Hundreds of Shanghai Characters

2016-07-21 - By Jin Qian

Although street photography has been around since cameras were invented, combining the art form with social media-ready text blurbs that provide a glimpse into the subject's life is a fairly recent phenomenon. There are several of these out there... Read more...
[The List]: Imported Magazines

2015-12-11 - By SmSh

Print's not dead. A round-up of where to get a little English-language magazine media around Shanghai. Strictly the imports... Read more...
World's Most Beautiful Books On Show at SH Library

2013-11-18 - By SmSh

The Shanghai International Book Design Arts Exhibition is on for the next couple of days at Shanghai Library. Following the two-day Shanghai Forum of World Book Designers held earlier... Read more...

This Looks Hot: ‘Pretty Ugly’ Zine Launches This Saturday

Where the Wild Things Were

Nerd News: Excellent Japanese Bookstore is Opening in Shanghai This Winter

Books Are Back! Nine of Shanghai's Newest and Coolest Bookstores

This Little Bookstore Near Xintiandi Champions Young Chinese Illustrators

Children's Book Fair Is On This Weekend, With More Than 60k New Books

This Bookstore Just Opened 52 Floors Off The Ground and There’s a Queue to Get In

[Report From The Ground]: Shanghai Book Fair

Check Out this New Bookstore with a Pretty Good English-Language Section

[The List]: 11 English-Language Bookshops That Have Survived This Long

Shanghai International Literary Festival Releases March 2018 Programme

Shaving in the Dark, Shanghai Soup and Other Community Events this Week

[Inside Education]: A Conversation with Lenora Chu: Author, Journalist, and Mom

M Literary Residency Now Accepting Applicaitons

[On The Ground] Jululu Indie Book Fair

New Taobao Regulations Banning 'Overseas Publications' to Take Effect March 10

Shanghai International Literary Festival to Return in March

Read This: New Street Photo Book Captures Hundreds of Shanghai Characters

[The List]: Imported Magazines

World's Most Beautiful Books On Show at SH Library

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