Public Reading Spaces
2023-03-06 | english.bjsjs.gov.cn |
China Publishing Children's Bookstore
 
 
This children's bookstore has over 6,000 Chinese and English picture books and multiple reading spaces. The store integrates reading experience cultural and creative products and cultural services. Here, you can find a treasure trove of children's books, family activities, cultural events and other great resources that motivate children to read.
 
 
Fan Deng Bookstore & Liu Ru Homestay
 

Fan Deng Bookstore & Liu Ru Homestay is a combination of family-friendly bookstore-and-homestay. It sells cultural products such as books, incense, tea, and utensils. In addition to family-friend accommodation, it also plans and provides space for birthday parties, themed parties, and customized events. 
 

Jingxi Bookstore
 

Jingxi Bookstore is located in an ancient siheyuan. The green trees, gray walls and coffee-colored wooden structures allow the bookstore to fit seamlessly into the antique-style street. It mainly sells books, coffee, light meals, and cultural products and provides a perfect reading space. It also celebrates folk culture, simple living, and fashion.
 
 
Liangyue City's Study
 

Unlike other bookstores intended for reading and selling books, Liangyue City's Study is more like a living room, or urban public space, where people can study, work, and party. They can even stay here for a whole day, without any purpose.


Love Reading Art Bookstore
 

Love Reading Art Bookstore is located in the No.3 Blast Furnace. What to look for when you are in the bookstore? The original structures inside the blast furnace have been preserved to the greatest extent, and special-shaped steel bookshelves have been installed. More than 150 tons of steel plates were welded together, interspersed with light colored glass, to form an artistic corridor. It is an urban cultural space that connects the past with the future.
 

This art-centric bookstore sells art books, handicrafts, cool gadgets, lifestyle products, and artwork. It also hosts art exhibitions, music events, and salons. Come to the bookstore and explore its infinite possibilities.


Love Reading Bookstore (Langyuan Park)
 

Love Reading Book store (Langyuan Park) is transformed from an antiques market built in the 1990s. The bookstore has a brick-concrete structure. The square shape of its building and its beautifully landscaped garden create an interesting contrast of hardness and softness. It is widely recognized as one of the most beautiful bookstores in Beijing. On a sunny day, the beauty of the entire public reading area will be elevated by the sunlight streamed in at noon. The bookstore has three small gardens where you can enjoy stargazing. It is a great place to spend time with yourself, with a good book, and with nature.
 
 
Love Reading Memory Bookstore (Beixin'an)
 

Walking into the beautiful bookstore is like walking into a time capsule which holds the precious memories of the city in the past.


Shijingshan District Library

Reading can take you anywhere.
 

Shijingshan District Library, with a collection of more than one million books and journals, was certified as a national first class library in 2017. It consists of two divisions: Main Library and Children's Library. The Main Library provides public library services such as book loans, database inquiry, reading advocacy, electronic services and study space. The Main Library has won a slew of honorary titles, including "National Role Model for Reading Advocacy", "Excellent Workplace in China's Cultural Sector", "Excellent Workplace in China's Cultural Tourism Sector", and "National Role Model in Ethical and Cultural Progress".
 

The Children's Library is seeking to become a "storytelling library" that offers story times to children. From 2015 to 2021, the Children's Library won many honorary titles such as "One of China's Top 10 Picture Book Libraries", "China's Most Beautiful Picture Bock Library", and "China's Most Influential Picture Book Library" for seven consecutive years.
 
 
Sunlight Books
 

Sunlight Books provides ample, elegant and quiet space for local kids and their families to read picture books and discover the joy of handicraft and strengthen parent-child ties. It has created a welcoming environment that encourages reading and learning.


T A Club
 

T A is for talent accomplishment, indicating the club's intention of cultivating talent. The club provides space for a variety of activities, including reading tea tasting, business meetings, study sessions, and salons. Green plants every where make this store the perfect place to relax and sip a cup of tea or read a book.
 
Wood of Words Book Corner
 
 
Located in Beijing Yinbao Jianguo Hotel, the book corner is a featured book store and library surrounded by green hills. It integrates bookstore, coffee shop and salon. Open 24/7, the bookstore is a delight of a place for bookworms.


Yuewen Bookstore
 

Here at Yuewen Bookstore, you can enjoy a good time reading. Yuewen Bookstore, another distinct bookstore in Shijingshan, is a cultural space that serves as a bookstore, a reading space, a private cinema, a cafe, a beverage bar and a place for cultural events. According to the owner, this is a flea market for intellectuals. It is also one of the few 24/7 bookstores in Shijingshan. With a spacious, comfortable environment, considerate services and a rich collection of books, it provides comfortable reading space for book worms. You can also choose a movie you like and watch it in privacy in the cinema here. Small as it is, it allows you the privacy and me time to enjoy the beauty of art.
SHIJINGSHAN DISTRICT PEOPLE'S GOVERNMENT OF BEIJING MUNICIPALITY