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Yoshii hosted the forum and discussed with small bookstore owners from Taipei, Tokyo and Brisbane
On September 7th, I went to Chengdu. Because this year's international bookstore forum held by Fang invited Yoshii Shinobu as a guest, and also invited Kintaro Uchinuma of Honya B&b to participate in the forum through Yoshii, I naturally got to the scene as the editor of Tokyo Honya, and I also planned to accompany the two authors to visit the bookstores that have sprung up in Chengdu in recent years.
Because of "Tokyo Honya", not only the traditional version was released, but Yoshii was invited to Taiwan, Singapore and other places to participate in many bookstore-related events.
This time, let's talk about shopping first.
Fangsuo
The window arrangement at the entrance of the Fangsuo store
Fang's international bookstore forum in Chengdu is already the second time, last year's 2016 point was "the world's most beautiful bookstore gathered here", this year is "bookstore and urban style". The day before the opening, fangsuo: a large venue next to a large elevator, equipment boxes have been stacked there, and the small venue for usual activities has become the most beautiful book in China (2015-2016) exhibition. Posters for the 2017 International Bookstore Forum can be seen in the hall and throughout Taikoo Li Roadside, books about the city and bookstores are displayed at the booths at the entrance, and Tokyo Honya can be glimpsed at many counters. On weekday afternoons, the store was very popular, but many of the books on the booth were turned to the back cover by readers, and I had to habitually turn back to the front one by one, in general, it was about the same as the previous three visits, the volume was there, but the copy rate on the shelves became lower, and many of the surface layers were books that were somewhat worn out by readers. (Listening to people at Pioneer Bookstore, who also came to the conference, the situation was worse when they came in March, and this time it seems to be picking up for the forum.) However, because of salary and personnel reasons, the frequent flow of bookstore clerks and the consumption of mental energy have always been a common disease in the industry, and many bookstores have just begun to take a breath, and after a long time, the bookshelf will show fatigue. ）
That night, I had dinner with Yoshii and Uchinuma's editors, Mr. Ayano from Asahi Publishing House, who had traveled from Tokyo, and talked about bookstores and publishing, and Ayano's Obama Speech Collection sold well in Japan, and he also curated RenZiwen's book, (the best-selling book in the history of Asahi Publishing House is "Santa fe"—people who know what kind of book it is in a second), but he is still very surprised that "The Kite Chaser" has sold millions of dollars in China. Ayana and Uchinu co-edited a book about a small bookstore in Seoul, and naturally looked forward to seeing what kind of bookstore in Chengdu this time. After dinner, Yoshii began to accept the media group interviews and TV station shooting arranged by fang, which was really hard.
Early Friday morning, I, Yoshii, Uchinuma, and Ayana went to several bookstores in Seongnam New District, because Uchinuma had also heard the name of Jongshokaku in Japan...
Zhong Shu Ge
At ten o'clock to Yintai, where Zhong Shuge is located, the shopping mall is very new, and many shops should still be in the process of investment promotion and decoration, which is very empty. This Zhong Shu Ge and Shanghai Jing'an Rui Ou shop compared to seem to converge a lot, although the glass is still dense with a variety of text sentences but the inside of the book area and coffee area are relatively not surprising to me, the whole layout is like a compass, one leg of the glass curtain wall into the coffee area and adult book area, because the height is very good, so there is an air corridor, looking out of the floor-to-ceiling window is the park. At the end of the road is the sunken small theater-style activity area, the ceiling of the activity area reveals the true color of the Bell Book Pavilion, all glass, and Uchinuma hurried to take pictures.
Look up at the inner swamp of the ceiling of the lecture area
Yoshii, me, and Ayano were not immune
I'm thankful they made so many pieces of Belen and Lucian, but I'm really worried about whether they can sell it
The sample book label is chengdu-style
The other leg of the compass leads to the children's book area, which is also combined with the characteristics of Chengdu, the bookshelves are all bamboo-like, the edge is indispensable to the panda form, and there are several small spaces separated according to the height of the children. However, Uchinuma asked two questions, there are many bookshelves in the high space that are more than three meters high, what about the books on it? The bamboo bookshelf plate is curved, and the books standing on it are easily damaged, what to do? I had to answer that when a bookstore with a conscience is depreciated, those without a conscience will return it.
The children's book area is like a playground, which is a point that Zhong Shuge has always insisted on
The tall and powerful Uchinuma stooped into the secret space
The next two were Wenxuan, who gave up the near to save the distance, first suppressed and then Yang, and first went to the Xuankehui Style Bookstore in Oaks Square. Because it is necessary to introduce the new changes of the state-owned bookstore to Uchima.
Xuan Ke Hui Style Bookstore and Wen Xuan Books
Since ancient times, the bookstore that hangs the style in the name of the store must be full of black lines, the entrance is floral art, there are porcelain sales inside, the store layout belongs to the Sisyphus style that has walked fifty steps, but there are several copies of "Fang Siqi's First Love Paradise" on the prominent booth, keeping up with current events to a little unexpected. (Also thanks to The Club Of Style Bookstore for placing Belen and Lucien prominently at the entrance.) ）
After that, it is time to return to Jiufang, which is 500 meters away from Zhong Shu Ge, to visit Wenxuan's new work, Wenxuan books, which just opened on August 25. The entrance to the first floor next to muji is indeed very different from the previous style bookstore, entering is the outer edition of the book, and then the Amazon kindle exhibition area, the space is open to be in Suzhou Eslite, the feeling of the bookshelf is also very similar, but the name of the recommended area shelf is "Mr. Return (Lu Xun and the Republic of China)" "The proverb of love (I thought it was just a love letter, and the result seems to be that the letters are put together)". Eslite uses the relatively separate space as an area for various categories of books, which is also here, but it is also rented to a shop-in-shop, and there is a tea area on the first floor, where people are drinking tea and chatting. There was a small staircase to go up half a floor, and I forgot to go up to see it.
Next to the cash register and the main entrance, there is a muji-style exhibition hall that is exhibiting the works of Jiangsu Phoenix Fine Arts Publishing House that won the most beautiful book in China (is not it against Fang Suo?). Uchinuma and Ayana, who had just tried to publish books, bought two copies each as a reference, including Hong Wei's book, which I think is the most worth complaining about, but fortunately there is no wen ai art here. This kind of twisted search for the most beautiful and masturbating books generally does not enter my eyes, and beauty is to be sought in daily life. The brothers of Suzhou Eslite Grand Ladder also appeared here, which is a stepped activity space, if it can be full, the activity must be spectacular.
Wenxuan books' store is very open to the opposite
Tolkien's book is in a good location and works well
The big staircase can go upstairs or rest, but unfortunately, when it was nearly noon, no one sat down
From the escalator to the second floor, the proportion of shop-to-shops has increased, there are light food, stationery, learning machines, etc., and the eslite space is filled with teachers and aids that are rude and reminiscent of the fears of the past dominated by them. The speed of the clerk checkout is a little slow, it seems that there is no familiar operation, I asked the clerk, your bookstore does not have three floors, why did not see the stairs on the third floor? The clerk replied that he needed to go out and walk on the public escalator, and could not go directly up from the store.
We were full of doubts, and sure enough, the children's book area on the third floor was deliberately separated, called kids winshare, which spent more effort than The Bell Book Pavilion, the entrance floor and bookshelf were chess-like, the left hand was a closed performance area, with a small stage; the right hand was bigger. Many of the booths are made into the shape of animals, and there are many places to sit, and they are relatively low, suitable for children. There are edges and corners of the wrapped some anti-collision soft rubber strips, but from the adult's point of view to wrap well, the hand to the bottom edge of a touch does not seem to be wrapped, this is afraid of who hits?
Kids Winshare enters the store in a chess-like decoration
Performance area and small stage
Giraffe and elephant bookshelves
Animal-shaped bookshelves are covered with anti-collision soft tape strips
Children's books of different ages have partitions, the innermost carpet needs to be barefoot or wear shoes to go in, there are many separate cubicles, it seems to be used for reading classes in the future, there are still clerks painting interiors, and there are children who have been hiding inside to read. There is also a small sunken activity area, the bottom end is the shape of the solar system, and several velvet piers can be moved, which is a planet.
On the morning of the third day, because Yoshii had an activity to host in the afternoon, he stayed at the hotel to practice. Miss Deng, a volunteer at Fangsuo, took us out to visit the bookstore.
Comic strips of Tao Shu Zhai and Wen Play Market
Bookshelves outside the Tao Bookstore
First of all, I went to the Bundo Market to find a used bookstore to find a bookstore, and when this family sold new books and waited to inquire about the old book department, Uchinuma and Ayano asked me what was sold on the small counter rented by the family next door? As soon as I looked at the stacks of comic strips, I said they were chinese comics, and the top two books happened to be "Blood Doubt" and "Dinosaur Express", so they bought a stack by themselves. Finally arrived at the old book department of tao bookstore, the result is in another literary play market on the far side of the laneway, the side is full of flies in the back kitchen, the aunts in the open air washing vegetables, near noon, the air is filled with oil smoke, the store looks quite a sense of old bookstore, the bookshelves are all facing the street, full of books, inside the inner swamp They both went in ten seconds to come out, saying that it was too choking. Everyone had to look at the bookshelves outside the store for a while, and I pointed them out to all kinds of Japanese reasoning published in China in the 1980s: Haruhiko Ōsaka, Shouyuki Nishimura, and Seiichi Morimura, but now none of them are out.
Then we went to the Curiosity Book Club, and it turned out to be empty, it was Saturday, and the store door said: Monday to Friday, ten o'clock in the morning, nine o'clock in the evening, as if people in France, but also more understanding of Chengdu. The next thing they wanted to do was Baoguang, but it was said that the door was not opened until one o'clock in the afternoon, so they went to the Panda Post Office to have a look, and then took the subway to Chunxi Road to ifs to see pageone and YanJi.
Two bookstores in the same ifs: pageone and yanji
The door is cold, and the stores in Hong Kong and Singapore have also closed one after another, hoping that they will get better after the change of ownership
There are two bookstores in the same mall, which is still quite unexpected, one on the fifth floor and one on the second basement floor. It was almost twelve o'clock, the pageone was empty, and the entrance was a foreign document, very pageone. There is no one in the large coffee area on the left hand side, the book area is inventory, there are few people in the dim light, the first and second of the best-selling shelves are the Holy Lily and Auden Prologue Collection, I can't believe it, as the Apparition of the Virgin Mary was photographed down for the translation society Auden to edit Yaya Lake Resident. I feel that this shop is too overestimated the acceptance ability of Chengdu people, and the pageone that specializes in foreign documents is not as good as a year in Sanlitun, what can be done in Chengdu?
The best-seller lists of many ground bookstores are actually not very convincing, but pageone is completely the opposite of most bookstore recommendations...
The shop-in-shop occupies a lot of space, and there is even a small supermarket on the left hand side of the entrance
Yan Ji is also newly opened, the natural benchmark is the square rather than the upstairs, but also many spaces set up shop-in-shop: supermarkets, stationery, light food, this set of overall lease and then grouped Eslite culture real estate model miniature version seems to be very attractive and practical for bookstores. The book area will release new products, recommended items, books about books and foreign editions of the book, which is also very similar to the decoration of the fang. In the mainland, due to well-known reasons, the purchase of Hong Kong and Taiwan books is relatively difficult and will become more and more difficult, so the pursuit of the so-called sense of quality of the bookstore will work hard in this regard, Jing'an Zhong Shu Ge Hong Kong and Taiwan books basically shrink in the coffee area, Joy City West Sifu Hong Kong and Taiwan books have basically disappeared, Fang Suo's old face many books are still when creating stores, who has the ability to enter more and better Hong Kong and Taiwan books is like one of the criteria for considering whether a mainland bookstore is good or not. Yan Ji entered the port and Taiwan, and then the quality stationery, the bottom of the book wall is foreign literature, and there are several Taiwanese books about North Korea on the booth, which is a bit interesting.
Yan Ji entered the door and put out a special shelf of books, and "Tokyo Honya" was also among them
The biggest surprise was the last night before leaving Chengdu, because Yoshii wanted to stay in Chengdu for two more days to make up for the regret of not being able to go to many bookstores for interviews and activities, I asked Fu Han, the owner of the inn, who was very magical, to help (everyone can go to Chengdu to live, very cheap, raise your legs to Wenshu Monastery), when you met Fu Han brought Teacher Li Zongyi, who happened to live in his inn, who was teaching at Central China Normal University, to come, and when I asked, I learned that the bad blood I just read at the beginning of last month was translated by him (he is also the translator of the traditional version of our kids), We had a great conversation.
Later, a study of the educational changes in Hong Kong and Singapore, "Comparative Hegemony" was also written by him. (I also recommended "Comparative Hegemony" to Yoshii before, because of the relationship between "Tokyo Honya", she was invited to Singapore to participate in the event, the organizer is the World Bookstore development of the public group, she took back a "To readers: Singapore Bookstore Story, 1881-2016" in a lot of the introduction to the old bookstore, can be printed with "Comparative Hegemony", the quality is very high, to my surprise with this kind of commemorative book.) I always feel that there are only a few people who have read these two books at the same time in the mainland, and they actually met at night in Chengdu with such a magical and low probability. It's amazing, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Later, Fu Han introduced a lot of interesting things about Chengdu's old book industry for Jijing, and also asked senior people to take Yoshii to visit the owner of the used bookstore, and even Yoshii went with the store manager to buy goods and pick gold, hoping that Yoshii would write about these experiences.
Finally, an anecdote about Hiroichiro Shima, who opened the B&b with Uchinuma, is hilarious and abnormal.
Four bookstores
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