To talk about Sinan Bookstore, we must start with Sinan Reading Club. Sinan Reading Club originated from the Shanghai Book Fair in 2013, and in 2014, Sinan Reading Club was established and became a regular cultural activity in Shanghai. In the past few years, there have been many literary masters who have been invited to give lectures at the Sinan Reading Club, such as Mo Yan, Wang Anyi, Ge Fei, Ma Yuan, Han Shaogong, Jia Pingwa, Yan Geling, Bi Feiyu...... The weekly reading club is lively and lively, which can be called Shanghai's cultural parlor.
Sinan Bookstore is a continuation of Sinan Reading Club. Prior to that, they had opened a Sinan Bookstore Concept Store, a pop-up bookstore that had only been open for 60 days and was very popular with readers, which also made it possible to open a real Sinan physical bookstore. On April 23, 2018, World Book Day, the physical bookstore of Sinan Bookstore was finally officially unveiled, which is located in a garden house with a history of nearly 100 years in Sinan Mansion, which is the residence of the patriotic general Feng Yuxiang and the poet Liu Yazi also rented here.
The bookstore is divided into floors, with a calm and steady display of history and philosophy books, and a reader's exclusive study room, such as "one-person reading place" and "two-person reading room", where readers can get rid of daily trivial matters and think freely. Walk up the stairs to the main entrance and exit of Sinan Bookstore, and go directly to the second floor. In addition to selling cultural and creative products, the second floor mainly displays literary works, displaying more than 2,000 literary books and related magazines selected by the book selector. Art books are placed on the third floor, which is also a small cultural and art exhibition space with changing themes, and the attic on the fourth floor has been transformed into a public reading space, which is usually used for cultural lectures.
The most distinctive feature is the London Review of Books section, which was created by the selection team of Sinan Bookstore's sister bookstore, the London Review of Books, and synchronized with the London Review of Books Bookstore in Bloomsbury, with a collection of more than 500 new books in foreign languages, and also maintained a superb selection of books. The London Review of Books is one of the top 10 bookstores in the world selected by The Independent and is known for its excellent book selection, and is a bellwether for the British literary world and a must-visit place for bookstore lovers.
If you want to rest on the spot, you can go to the café on the second floor to drink a drink, Italian coffee, single product coffee, tea, juice and other options, the unit price ranges from 20-40 yuan.
