WHERE TO BUY CHINESE LANGUAGE BOOKS

Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk. Input the author’s name in pinyin spelling, eg Jia Pingwa. The Chinese book name will sometimes come up transcribed in pinyin; or sometimes the book name will be translated, but will say in brackets (in Chinese)

Sino-Media USA, for Mainland China books. Email Mr. Wang at wangt@sinomediausa.com

YesAsia.com, based in Hong Kong. (Tip: spell author’s name as three words, eg spell JIA Pingwa as Jia Ping Wa.) A bilingual site where Chinese book results show up on its English as well as Chinese pages.

Eslite Bookstore: www.eslite.com/.  Taiwan. Website in Chinese only.

Grassroots Book Room (grassrootsbookroom@yahoo.com.sg) and City Book Room (citybookroom@gmail.com). Singapore. See also their Facebook pages (no website). They’re happy to e-mail in English, so that’s probably the best option for US librarians who don’t speak Chinese.

UK

• Arthur Probsthain – a real bookshop in London
• Cypress Books 常青圖書 – online bookstore
• Guanghwa Bookshop 光华书店 – a real bookshop in London
• Foyles Charing Cross Road – a real bookshop in London

USA

• AsianParent – online bookstore
• Betterchinese.com – online bookstore
• China Sprout – online bookstore
• Yesasia.com – online bookstore

France

• Librairie le Phénix – a real bookshop in Paris
• Libraire You Feng – a real bookshop in Paris

Singapore

• ReadWithMeMommy – online bookstore

 

Compiled by Nicky Harman and the team at Paper Republic