China: Foreigners love to buy Chinese books

[Harold Schiffman]

Forwarded From: edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu


People's Daily Online



Foreigners love to buy Chinese books



The Olympic Games are firing up a Chinese culture fever, and bookstores in
Beijing are greeting a lot more foreign readers than before, according to
Beijing Daily. The most obvious change is the increase in sales of many
foreign-language books. Deputy Director of the marketing and management
centre in the Beijing Book Building Zhang Zheng said: "Sales of
foreign-language books this month have reached nearly 100 million copies,
21.6 percent more than the previous month."



Full story:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90883/6480076.html





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