Du Xuan: The old bookstore is a good place to do learning Zhu Yongxin pressed:

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Du Xuan (1914-2004), formerly known as Gui Xiangling, was a native of Jiujiang, Jiangxi. He has successively served as a member of the editorial board of Drama Spring and Autumn Magazine, the president of the New China Drama Club, the editor-in-chief of Qunbao, the president of The Hong Kong Daqian Publishing House, the director of the Institute of International Political Economy, the permanent representative and secretary of the Secretariat of the Permanent Bureau of the Chinese Writers Association in the Asian-African Writers' Conference, the screenwriter of the Shanghai People's Art Theatre, the editor-in-chief of the Literary Daily, the professor of Shanghai University, the chairman of the Shanghai Branch of the Chinese Dramatists Association, the vice chairman of the Shanghai Writers Association, and the deputy secretary and vice chairman of the party group of the Literary Association. He is the author of the drama scripts "Unsung Hero", "Unforgettable Years", "Turbulent Years", "Shanghai Battle Song", "The Other Side", "Selected Plays of Du Xuan", "The Great Living Newspaper of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea" (written), "European Chronicles", "Dreams", "The Tragedy of the Century", "The Return of the Sea to the Pearls", the essay collection "Diary of West Africa", "May Crane", "Du Xuan Prose Selection", "Fei Shi Lang Hua Years", "Yerba Buena Dream", "Guiye Caotang Comic Pen", film literary scripts "Lanlan and Winter", "Changhong Uprising", "Pioneer", etc. In 2004, the Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House collected Du Xuan's life plays, essays, poems and film scripts, and published an 8-volume "Du Xuan's Collected Works". This article was originally titled "Used Bookstores in Tokyo",

Published in the "Xinmin Evening News" reading music column, and later compiled into the "Famous Artists Talk about Reading" edited by Mr. Cao Zhengwen. The article tells the story of the author's study through a used bookstore to buy books and newspapers while studying in Japan. In the early 90s of the last century, I often went to the bookstore street mentioned in his articles, and I felt the same way.

Japan's publishing industry is well-developed and there are many bookstores, and it is world-famous. When I studied in Tokyo in the 1930s, I spent a lot of time in bookstores, especially used bookstores.

The largest number of used bookstores in Tokyo is around Kanda and Jimbocho. This is because there are many universities in this area, such as Japan Women's University, Meiji University, Nihon University, Hosei University, Chuo University, Junior College University, etc. Both are located here; followed by the University of Tokyo and Waseda University areas, there are also many used bookstores.

All bookstores in Japan are open. You are free to pick up books and read them, from morning to night, and no one asks. Often poor students, who have no money to buy books, acquire knowledge in this way. There are also a large number of Japanese magazines, and new magazines can be bought from used bookstores for half or less than half a week, or even two or three days after they are published. The same is true of the new book. This method was extremely beneficial to the poor intellectuals, who, for the sake of writing articles or scientific research, were anxious to use the materials from some newly published magazine, and after citing it, the magazine was of little use to him. So he immediately sold it to a used bookstore, and he could get back part of the price of the book. There are also some people who are not in a hurry to read the articles in the magazine, and there is no problem in reading them a few days later, and he goes to the old bookstore to buy them, which can save some money. I used to buy magazines in Tokyo.

In the past, there were also many used bookstores in Shanghai. After liberation, there were three on Changshu Road. After work, I often hang out at these three bookstores, where I can buy some good books that I can't buy in the new bookstore. Sometimes, there is an urgent need for money, or the home is small and there is nowhere to store it; you can sell some books that you do not use to the old bookstore, so that you can not only recover some money, but also make the books flow back into the hands of those who need them. Mutual convenience.

Buying books in Shanghai is very difficult now. Near where I live, not only is there no old bookstore, but there is only one new bookstore. Most of the books sold are some auxiliary reading materials for primary and secondary school students, and books with academic value are difficult to see, reflecting the poverty of our culture. It's hard to find a used bookstore, of course it's hard to buy old books, and the fun of visiting a used bookstore in the past is certainly not negotiable. I tell the ecstatic situation when we went to the used bookstore and suddenly found a good book that we couldn't ask for, and told the young friends now, just like the bald official said about the old things of Tianbao.

This lame situation caused by the planned economy is something I hope to improve when vigorously developing the market economy at present. On this trip to Tokyo, I wandered the streets and bookstores, and Wrote this down by hand.