How Chinese designers re-established a landmark bookstore as an urban hub
40 years ago, China underwent revolutionary economic reform and saw the passing of transformative opening-up policies. The cultural impact was powerful: rapidly globalizing, China sharpened its focus on foreign communities and global society, and
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