The bookshop is dead. long live the bookshop

After a premature reading of the last rites, the bibliophile's favorite place is staging a comeback by breaking away from convention and reinventing itself

"These days, who reads books?"

I have just made myself comfortable at a table in a cafe in People's Square in Shanghai on a recent warm Saturday evening when Hua Chun, 27, started griping about how superficial the world is.