Fuxingfang Review

Shanghai | Used bookstore hidden in the depths of the alley, rhinos are here □ Street alley | ■ Old Shop Chaodian | □ New Visit to the Monument | □ Bus Shanghai. We plan to visit 100 "most Shanghai" humanities travel places in a year. Today we recommend the 49th travel place: Rhino Bookstore. Second-hand bookstores have always been the most special existence in the city: whether second-hand bookstores can be opened, the quality of books in the bookstore reflects the reading level of people in the surrounding area. When reading in Fudan, the second floor of the vegetable market, always a food taste of Fudan old bookstore is my paradise; after work, there is no leisure to go to the second-hand bookstore to slowly explore the treasure. This time, I found the rhino bookstore in Fuxingfang by chance, as if reopening a long closed window in my heart. The history of rhinos is said to be named "rhinos" in the bookstore because rhinos have a heavy body and elegant sharp horns, in this troubled world, has its detached demeanor. But the transcendental rhino bookstore has been closed four times in more than ten years, reopened, relocated and other twists and turns: the earliest rhino bookstore opened in Xinzhuang, is a new bookstore covering more than 200 square meters and also operating coffee, but because of the location reasons can not support. Specializing in Wenshizhe shopkeeper carefully selected books have a special "time precipitation", from the line of ancient books, the Republic of China era to the 1990s printed simple Wenshizhe books, are the owner's heart. In addition to the old books, there are rhino ornaments and calligraphy works presented by readers and friends in the small space, which makes the bookstore's old paper piles a burst of anger. As Sean Bessel wrote in The Bookstore Diary, "The endless frivolous problems, the precarious financial situation, the endless arguments with the clerk and the customer who bargained endlessly, have made the second-hand bookstore owner impatient, Paranoia, aversion to communication". Since the 17-year-old's first job chose the rhino bookstore, Zhuang saw fruit's fate has been changed since then 13 years later, Zhuang saw fruit persevering in the name of rhino to continue his bookstore dream, like a rhino detached from the world alive. Address: No. 37, Lane 553, Fuxing Middle Road, 1st Floor Transportation: Metro Line 13 #Huaihai Middle Road [Location]# Station, follow #Sinan Road [Location]# to Fuxing Middle Road. View more Humanities Shanghai series, please go to my favorites [Humanities Shanghai]