China News Service, Shanghai, October 1st (Wang Ji) "Books for Wisdom - 2022 Shanghai and Hong Kong Cultural Theme Books Mutual Exhibition" will be held in Shanghai Hong Kong Sanlian Bookstore, Foreign Language Bookstore, Zhongshuge Xuhui Store and Hong Kong Sanlian Bookstore Central on the 1st. The store, the Hong Kong Chung Hwa Book Company Yau Ma Tei store, and the Hong Kong Commercial Press Causeway Bay store opened simultaneously.
This is the first time that the book industry in Shanghai and Hong Kong has displayed the cultural achievements of the two places at the same frequency in the form of mutual exhibition. 100 kinds of representative works of Shanghai culture and Hong Kong culture published in the Shanghai edition and the Hong Kong edition in the past three years are selected for simultaneous exhibition and sales.
Books to send knowledge - 2022 mutual exhibition of cultural themed books between Shanghai and Hong Kong.
Photo courtesy of Shanghai Book and Periodical Distribution Industry Association
This one-week mutual exhibition is sponsored by Shanghai Books and Periodicals Publishing Industry Association, and jointly organized by New Retail (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. and Shanghai-Hong Kong Sanlian Bookstore Co., Ltd. It aims to showcase the publishing cultural achievements of Shanghai and Hong Kong. It will be the two places during the National Day holiday. Readers presented a special "Shanghai flavor" and "Hong Kong flavor" book gift.
Among the 100 Hong Kong-version cultural-themed books on display in Shanghai, many new books are "meeting" with readers in Shanghai for the first time.
Among them, "My Country, My Hong Kong: Narrative under the Lion Rock" depicts new "Hong Kong stories" such as medical staff from the mainland and Hong Kong helping each other under the new crown epidemic; The book focuses on the innovative achievements of the "Revitalizing Historic Buildings Partnership Program" and the preparation and construction of the Hong Kong Palace Museum. It is an urban encyclopedia of Hong Kong from the perspective of cultural and muse; etc. are also excellent works to showcase Hong Kong culture.
The 100 Shanghai-version cultural themed books exhibited in Hong Kong include the achievements of Shanghai's cultural construction and development in recent years, including "Shanghai History", "Shanghai Life History in the Late Qing Dynasty: Urban Customs in the New Year Paintings of Xiaoxiaochang", "Shanghai Old Town" One Hundred Years: 1843-1947" and other high-end humanities and history books, as well as "Good Bookstore and Good Coffee", "The Past and Present of the North Bund", and "The Sequel to the Old Taste of Shanghai" and other down-to-earth cultural life books.
"These books are carefully selected, not only new books, but also a fruitful display of the current situation of urban culture in Shanghai and Hong Kong," said Wang Yaohua, vice-chairman and secretary-general of Shanghai Book Publishing Industry Association, " For scholars from Shanghai and Hong Kong, it should be a pleasant thing to be able to discover the new and excellent works of each other's cultural evolution in time. We hope to continue this mutual exhibition, so that scholars from both places can buy books to read and enjoy cultural edification ."(Finish)