As Chinese bookstores go gargantuan, this one provides private reading nooks
As they say in Texas: everything’s bigger in China. While bookstores tend to be increasingly smaller affairs in Europe and in the post-Barnes-and-Noble world in the United States, its Chinese counterparts have grown into behemoths that sell much m
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