Fuzhou Road Cultural Shops

Walk down a historic avenue that has served as the intellectual heart of Shanghai for over a century, famous for its legacy stationery shops and multi-story book malls.

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1. Shanghai Lixin Paper Store

The Shanghai Lixin Paper Store sits on Fuzhou Road, a street recognized for over a century as the city's center for books, stationery, and academic publishing. The storefront is distinguished by the Superpaper Sonic branding, a name…

2. Zhouhuchen Caosugong Bimo Zhuang

The Zhouhuchen Caosugong Bimo Zhuang is a combined workshop and museum dedicated to two of China’s oldest stationery crafts: brush making and ink production. The site holds the history of the Zhou Huchen brush shop, founded in sixteen…

3. 百新文具馆

Baixin Bookstore, located on Fuzhou Road in the Huangpu District, occupies a space on the city's traditional "street of culture." A Shakespearean sonnet is inscribed into the pavement near the entrance, marking the spot where Xu Heling…

4. Foreign Languages Bookstore

The Foreign Languages Bookstore is housed in a striking red-brick building located at three hundred ninety Fuzhou Road in the Huangpu District. It has long operated as a primary destination for international literature in the city,…

5. Shanghai Ancient Bookstore

The Shanghai Ancient Bookstore at number four hundred one Fuzhou Road occupies a six-story building that stands along a street long recognized as the city’s center for publishing and literary trade. Established in May nineteen fifty-six,…

6. Jiajun Fine Arts Utensils

Jiajun Fine Arts Utensils is a storefront located on Fuzhou Lu, a street in the Huangpu District famously known for its high concentration of stationery and art supply shops. The store is identifiable by its focus on specialized tools for…

7. The Commercial Press

The Commercial Press is defined by its long history as the institution that launched China's modern publishing industry in eighteen ninety-seven. Founded by four typesetters who had left their jobs at a newspaper, the business began in a…

8. Shanghai Bookstore

Shanghai Book City rises seven stories above Fuzhou Road, its facade designed to look like stacked books that glow like a crystal palace after dark. Located in the Huangpu district, this building sits on a street that has functioned as the…

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