I Run a Bookstore in the Countryside: Ten Years in the Countryside of Pioneer Bookstore

About This Novel

From 2014 to 2024, Qian Xiaohua, founder of Pioneer Bookstore, talked about his ten-year journey of running a bookstore in rural areas. 68 Photos of exquisite bookstores, panoramically showing the architectural aesthetics of "the most beautiful bookstore in the world". "When we run a rural bookstore, we suffer a lot and often worry. A rural bookstore is a narrow door, but no matter how narrow the door is, we must walk inward, because I believe that narrow door is the door we want to walk through." This book is a documentary prose work by Qian Xiaohua, the founder of Pioneer Bookstore, who recorded his involvement in setting up a bookstore in the countryside. It writes about his experiences and feelings in the countryside for ten years. In 2014, an accidental trip to Bishan changed the trajectory of Qian Xiaohua's bookstore business. After experiencing a wave of closures of physical bookstores, Qian Xiaohua still insisted on opening bookstores to remote villages, even though he was described as an idealistic lunatic and an outlier. So there was Bishan Bookstore. In the next ten years, he successively opened 12 rural bookstores in Daijiashan, Songyang, Pingnan and other places. He brought poetic spiritual life to the countryside and created a vibrant public space for rural people. In "I run a bookstore in a village", Qian Xiaohua shares the story of location selection, opening, and daily operations of a rural bookstore, as well as his thoughts on the future of physical bookstores in China. Bookstores are like rice. They bow their heads when they are full and move upwards when they are weak, spreading knowledge and faith to the earth. This is Qian Xiaohua's belief in running a bookstore, and it is also China's spiritual return home in the future.

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