Today is the "23rd birthday" of Shanghai Book City
Shanghai Book City, located at 465 Fuzhou Road
It also ushered in the last day of business before the temporary departure
Accompanied by Shanghainese for 23 years
Ta that carries many "Shanghai memories" and "Shanghai heritage"
Finally, I want to say goodbye to everyone
Shanghai Book City why
On fuzhou road?
Jiang Li, deputy general manager of Shanghai Xinhua Media Chain Co., Ltd. and former general manager of Shanghai Book City, introduced: This is because Fuzhou Road is the birthplace of our modern publishing industry in China.
More than 100 years ago, Fuzhou Road and the nearby Qipan Street and Wangping Street area, convenient transportation, well-informed information, moderate rent price of real estate, very suitable for cultural undertakings. In 1850, The Mohai Library, China's first modern publishing institution, settled in Maijiaquan, Fuzhou Road (now the area around Shandong Road).
In the second year of the Republic of China (1913), the Commercial Press actually measured the chessboard street marked in the map of the Shanghai City Concession
During the Republic of China period, Fuzhou Road was home to the most important bookstores in China, including the four famous bookstores - the Commercial Press, zhonghua bookstore, world bookstore, and Dadong bookstore. In the years that followed, it gradually became a gathering place for intellectuals, and the constant emergence of bookstores and newspapers became their common position.
In the 1930s, the Commercial Press was located on Fuzhou Road
Before 1949, seventy-eighths of the books published nationwide were completed by Shanghai publishing houses. The Shanghai publishing industry has made significant contributions to the construction of China's culture.
In 1951, Xinhua Bookstore East China Branch was settled in Fuzhou Road World Bookstore. At the same time, the Commercial Press, Zhonghua Bookstore, Sanlian Bookstore, Enlightened Bookstore, etc. were established as Chinese book distribution companies. After that, after public-private partnerships and many demolitions, the Commercial Press and Zhonghua Bookstore moved to Beijing; some bookstores were restructured, Dadong Bookstore was changed to art bookstore, and World Bookstore was changed to international bookstore, which was later renamed foreign bookstore.
The Foreign Language Bookstore still stands on Fuzhou Road
At the end of the 1980s, Shanghai's cultural and publishing circles proposed that Shanghai, as a super-large city, should have a relatively large book building to meet the speed of book publishing development and keep up with the needs of citizens' cultural life.
Until 1994
Shanghai Book City was finally officially located on Fuzhou Road
It also opened the story of Shanghainese and this "book city"
Today, many Shanghainese are accustomed to calling Fuzhou Road
"A street of culture"
"Shanghai Book City" four big characters
Who wrote it?
The lintel of the Shanghai Book City hangs high
Four big words with a strong pen
But few people know
Which "high person" is this shop sign "ink treasure"
Jiang Li revealed: The answer is
The famous Mr. Lu Xun!
But this "handwriting" is not what Mr. Lu Xun specially proposed for Shanghai Book City. Jiang Li told reporters that in Mr. Jiang's handwriting, they found a lot of "shang" characters, many "sea" characters, as well as many "books" and "cities", through arrangement and combination, selected the four words with the strongest sense of coordination, forming the current store sign of Shanghai Book City.
The limelight is no different
Many celebrities have brought new books with them
On December 30, 1998, Shanghai Book City and the "Second Shanghai Book Market" opened at the same time, opening the era of "Big Book City" in Shanghai's book retail industry.
As the first super-large comprehensive retail bookstore in Shanghai's history, "readers have to buy tickets when they enter the door, and they go around from Fuzhou Road, Guangdong Road, Hubei Road and Fujian Road, and thousands of people are queuing up continuously." Zhao Jianping, then secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai Book City, recalled that for five or six consecutive days, readers who bought tickets to enter the city were in an endless stream, making the opening of Shanghai Book City a sensational cultural event. At that time, many people came to Shanghai Book City by train from Nanjing, Suzhou and Hangzhou.
The former president of Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House solemnly recalled that the first time he stepped into Shanghai Book City, he was shocked, "In the past, books were usually accompanied by roadside book stalls, as a book publisher, a reader, walked into Shanghai Book City to see such magnificent furnishings, and suddenly felt that books could be accompanied by elegance and fashion, which really made readers find self-confidence." ”
Since its opening in 1998
Shanghai Book City has hosted many types of cultural events
Writers, scholars, and celebrities from all walks of life
They have all appeared with new books
On December 12, 2009, Nobel Laureate in Literature Mo Yan signed "Frog"
On May 30, 2008, Nobel Prize winner and Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk signed "My Name Is Red"
According to incomplete statistics, the Shanghai Book City Fuzhou Road store has held nearly 5,000 activities since its opening. Every weekend or holiday, it has become a habit of life for public readers to accompany books and meet famous artists here.
Temporarily closed for business
Six-hour themed activities are in progress
There are also good places to go when buying books
On the last day of business, Shanghai Book City will hold a rich reading activity today, thanking readers for 23 years of being with the fragrance of books and reuniting in 2023.
The event will last from 3 p.m. to the end of tonight's business hours, showing a series of activities such as the six-hour performance of students' famous plays, the chinese studies in children's fun, the national new book release hall "Grandma and Her House", the "Book Fragrance as a Companion" concert and the "Scum Pk Xueba" - Mixed Brother x Steamed Bun Master Joint Signing Party, Shanghai Story No. 28 "I and Shanghai Book City Series Closing Activities: Those Years, We Worked in Shanghai Book City" and so on.
Plenty of activities though
However, Shanghai Book City reminds readers
Gather less and don't get together
For example, the real-time passenger flow exceeds 500 people
Flow restrictions will be implemented in the store
Readers can watch the live broadcast through the official WeChat video number of Xinhua Media Shanghai Book City, the official WeChat video number of Xinhua Media Shanghai Xinhua Bookstore, the official WeChat video number of Xinhua Yicheng Book Collection, the conversation box and other platforms, review the past with the guests, look forward to the future, and look forward to reunion in 2023.
Tonight, from 20:30 to 21:30, the whole video of the conversation box will be broadcast live, and it is scheduled to be watched
During the period of closure and repair, Shanghai Book City will continue to provide book purchase and reading services for public readers, and will open up a 1,500-square-meter transitional area in the sunken square of 96 Square, No. 796 Dongfang Road, Pudong New Area, and provide more than 30,000 kinds of social science, literature, teaching materials and auxiliary books. The transition site is expected to be operational next year, and the exact opening time will be announced to readers separately.
A blessing
The book city is re-seen and taken to a higher level.
——Jiang Zengpei, publisher, literary critic and essayist
Today's "goodbye" old book city, the Ming Dynasty "again" to see the new book city! Book City, the eternal city in the hearts of book fans.
——Mao Shi'an, former vice chairman of the China Literary and Art Critics Association and counselor of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government
May the Book City always be a holy place for readers and books.
——Dai Junhao, President of Shanghai University Press
Sitting in the book city, he pretended to be the king of the south, hoping to return to the book city, and become a large study for the citizens.
——Zhou Limin, executive deputy curator of Ba Jin's former residence and literary critic
Long love for twenty-three years, looking forward to returning more colorful.
——Zhao Jianzhong, Shanghai writer, translator, literary critic and film critic
Become a paradise for the knowledge and wisdom of the people of Shanghai.
——Publisher and writer Wei Xinhong
The Book City is a spiritual landmark of Shanghai and will always stand tall.
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Book City, a harbor of life.
——Shanghai painter Zhang Anpu
Sitting on the book city, traveling the sea of books, climbing the peak of books - Shanghai Book City, Shanghai's cultural landmark!
——Xiu Xiaolin, senior editor, writer and literary critic
Once there was you, I was not lonely; today I will miss each other; look forward to returning, give me soul!
——Tu Jichun, director of Zhang Dafengtang Art Center
May the understanding of man and the world conveyed by the Book City be passed on forever.
——He Fei, Shanghai columnist, member of the China Writers Association, and national second-level music editor
I believe that today's farewell is for a better reunion tomorrow.
——Zhou Li, senior media person, urban culture researcher, and "architecture can be read" Huangpu District Publicity Ambassador
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