Benefiting from government subsidies and close-knit communities, independent bookstores try to compete and make profit in China’s smaller cities
It’s 11:27 p.m. on a Monday, and Tsing Bookstore is still filled with the noise of children playing. “Sorry, just give me a second,” owner Lu Qingqing tells TWOC over the phone as she tends to a stray child whose parent is lost somewhere in the 130-square-meter store.
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