Where to Find Foreign Language Books in Beijing

Let’s say you want to uncover English and other foreign-language guides in the money, the place would a single go?

At any time due to the fact The Bookworm closed back in 2019 – which boasted not only a big selection of China-connected guides in foreign Languages, but a significant library for borrowing – the options are a minor number of and far among. That won’t necessarily mean they’re nonexistent, while.

PageOne Qianmen

Potentially the premier of PageOne’s quite a few Beijing branches, this just one is also the finest to go to. On the higher floors you are going to uncover English versions of tomes on art, architecture, movie, and vacation complimented by views of Zhengyangmen and Tian’anmen Square. There is certainly even a espresso store you can go through in to though absent the time as perfectly.

PageOne Bookstore (Qianmen Branch)
Bldg E11, Beijing Enjoyment East, Qianmen Meishi Jie, Xicheng District
西城区前门煤市街北京坊东区E11号楼

Beijing Foreign Languages Bookstore

What once was 1 of the capital’s best identified bookshops apart from The Bookworm, these have also turn into worse for wear around the decades. BFLB after had a individual shop on the 4th flooring replete with secondhand novels that is now lengthy absent.

Now most of the novels, classics, vacation guides and the relaxation have been relegated to a back again home to make room for… other excellent operates. You will find no telling how very long they will be there, but at minimum there are however some fantastic reads to be observed inside of.

Beijing Foreign Languages Bookstore 北京外文书店
235 Wangfujing Dajie, Dongcheng District
东城区王府井大街235号

Mac Kids Books

This store, located in a nondescript place of work building up in Shunyi, is the most complete young ones bookstore in Beijing in accordance to our sister internet site Jingkids International. Even nevertheless it’s predominantly aimed towards Young ones aged -18, there are performs like the Lord of the Rings to be discovered below, and the house owners can purchase textbooks to be shipped to Beijing if you can not find what you’re searching for.

Mac Young ones Publications 麦克英文童书店
Golden Landmark Place of work Bldg 910-911, 32 Liangmaqiao Road, Chaoyang District
朝阳区亮马桥32号高斓大厦910-911号

Roundabout

Whilst a shop for next hand goods all all over, Roundabout does have a honest range of second hand foreign language books on supply. They also have a exclusive WeChat group for sales and exchanges of 2nd hand books (link underneath).

Roundabout
Cathay Watch Plaza, 2 Xiangjiang Bei Lu, Shunyi District
顺义区香江北路2号

JD and Taobao

It goes devoid of declaring that if you cannot discover it offline, you can most very likely find it on-line. A amount of shops on JD and Taobao offer Foreign and English-language titles for supply (a person of my go-tos on JD is 中华商务进口图书旗舰店 Zhōnghuá Shāngwù Jìnkǒu Túshū Qíjiàn Diàn, China Company Import Flagship Bookstore). Just be absolutely sure to check that the Chinese phrase 预订 yùdìng, meaning “reserve” is not ahead of the title. That signifies it’ll be delivered from overseas, which frequently will take a few to four weeks to get there.

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