Shanghai Fuzhou Road

Book Street of Fuzhou Road
FuZhou Road has long been reputed as "cultural street" since a century ago for an increasing concentration of some Well-known book stores, publishing houses and time-honored stationery stores dealing in writing brushes, ink sticks, rice paper, ink stones, etc. On Fuzhou Road today all kinds of book stores and stationery stores still gather here, including China Science and Technology Books Corporation, Shanghai cultural Commercial Building, Foreign Language Bookstore, Classical Book store, Long March Surveying Instruments store, Shanghai Artistic Goods Shop , Shanghai Paper Manufacture Shop and so on. Shanghai Book City is especially listed as one of ten designated cultural landmarks by Shanghai Municipal People's Government. Other novelty stores worthy of visitingon Fuzhou Road offer a wide selection of pretty greeting cards, Huizhou rice paper, silk paper, Zhoushanlian writing brushes, artistic painting frames, etc.

Shanghai Book City
With a knowing scholarly air Shanghai Book City has a magnificent and graceful main structure covering a sales floor of over 10,000sq. meters. As the first super-sized book retailer in Shanghai history it provides more than 12,000 kinds of books.

Shanghai Foreign Language Bookstore
With a history of more than forty years Shanghai Foreign Language Bookstore has sponsored in Shanghai area some large-scale fairs displaying books from U.S, Japan, France, Germany and other countries over recent years, and become one of Shanghai-based information distribution centers in modern science, technology, education and culture.

Shanghai Classical Book Store
The only large-scale specialized bookstore dealing in classics and classical arts books, it has a collection of over 20,000 select illustrated books and thread-bound Chinese classics, ancient painting and calligraphy, and stone rubbing by tens of thousands. (Source: China Today)