China: Foreigners love to buy Chinese books

[Francis Hult]

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."

 

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

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