FAMINE TURNS TO FEAST FOR CHINESE READERS
By Yang Yang | China Daily | Updated: 2018-09-28 07:58
Once-barren landscape for books has been transformed
In 1978, when the reform and opening-up policy was about to be launched, Ruan Chen, a 9-year-old book lover in Shanghai, was looking for more reading material.
It was not long after the "cultural revolution" (1966-76), a time when a limited number of literary and art books from overseas were published in the country.
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