New Year's Day 2022. Located at 36 Wangfujing Street, Canran Bookstore opened on September 18, 2004. Due to its small size, readers call it the "store department". At that time, zhonghua bookstore positioned the bookstore as a "reader service department" to serve zhonghua bookstore readers and traditional culture lovers. In honor of Mr. Jin Canran, a famous editor and publisher in China and the first general manager of Zhonghua Bookstore after the founding of New China, this bookstore was named "Canran Bookstore".
So far, Canran Bookstore has been quietly standing on Wangfujing Avenue for 17 years. For 17 years, it has become one of the must-visit bookstores for lovers of traditional culture. The real experience of readers is that traditional culture and ancient books are relatively complete, and they can find "many types that are not available in outside bookstores or even on the Internet"; the vision is "unique", "not so strong commercial", the store is usually "quieter"; the price of books is also "cheap".
However, after 17 years of continuous operation, Canran Bookstore could no longer meet the needs of readers for high-quality cultural supply and reading environment, and Zhonghua Bookstore decided to start the upgrading of Canran Bookstore. After the reopening, what kind of appearance does the bookstore present to the reader? There was also a heated discussion within the Zhonghua Bookstore. In the end, it was decided to provide as many services as possible to readers in this limited space: "... Create this store to create an elegant, bright and warm environment, where readers can immerse themselves in reading books, can find the books they want, can hold small exhibitions, salons, and small coffee lounges. ”
Today, the newly renovated Canran Bookstore opens on New Year's Day 2022, welcoming new and old readers and celebrating the 110th anniversary of Zhonghua Bookstore.
Canran Bookstore reopened on New Year's Day 2022
The reopening ceremony of canran Bookstore and the launch scene of the new book "Cui Wei but Gu Ji"
At the unveiling ceremony of Canran Bookstore, Xu Jun, head of Zhonghua Bookstore, said, "Canran Bookstore and its predecessor, the Reader Service Department of Zhonghua Bookstore, carry the feelings of generations of readers for Zhonghua Bookstore and the memories of Chinese books. Canran Bookstore reopened today, hoping to continue to play a bridging role and provide readers with more and better services. ”
Guests are inside the newly opened Canran Bookstore
The reopened Canran Bookstore has added more than 40 square meters of business area with a total area of 150 square meters. The books on display are mainly new books and key books published by Zhonghua Bookstore, and also include high-quality books of ancient books of other publishing institutions, nearly 2,000 kinds, more than 10,000 volumes. In order to give back to the loyal readers of Zhonghua Bookstore, the bookstore still opens a special book area. The bookstore also has a small coffee lounge where readers can read and take a nap. The bookstore also opens up a space for holding cultural lectures, so that scholars and thoughtful readers have more opportunities to listen, communicate and collide face-to-face to meet the multicultural needs of readers.
The upgrading and transformation of Canran Bookstore has been blessed by the "Guoxue Bookstore" project, a special fund for the development of the cultural industry, which makes Canran Bookstore more comprehensively serve readers and provide richer service content.
On the day of the event, Xu Jun's "Cui Wei but Gu Ji" new book launch was also held here, and a book signing and sales activity was carried out for enthusiastic readers who came to visit. Talking about the new book "Cuiwei but Guji", Xu Jun said that although the new book uses "Cuiwei" as the keyword, it actually mainly covers the calligraphy of the two eras of Cuiwei Road and Wangfujing in the Zhonghua Bookstore. Talking about this book here, there is a very real sense of the scene, it may be said that it is a text to return to that era, back to the historical scene.
"This book is not the result of books I wrote for the sake of writing books, but another kind of record of my work over the past 30 years, especially the last 20 years. Because of the needs of the work, consult the survey in advance, summarize and summarize afterwards, and publish it with the progress of the work, which belongs to the proper meaning of the topic of the work. Some are the people and things involved in the work, recorded in the record, long-term investigation and accumulation, and finally completed. In particular, the articles and interviews related to the revision of the 'Twenty-Four Histories' point of revision are taken seriously as I do with the revision itself. ”
Xu Jun signed
Xu Jun also mentioned that because of his working relationship, he has successively contacted a large number of archives, from the earliest "Quan Song Ci" archives and "Pipe Cone Compilation" archives, to the later systematic contact with the "Twenty-Four History" archives, which made him greatly shocked. These old books not only show the life course of a book, but also reflect the academic, cultural and social ecology of the era in which a book is located. "The contributions of the older generation of publishers and scholars, as well as the directors at the time, should not be forgotten – this is the inner motivation for me to insist on telling chinese stories outside of work." They are not only about zhonghua bookstores, but also about china's modern and contemporary academic culture. ”
Nandu reporter Huang Qian