page_title: Librairie Avant-Garde (Mount Wutai Branch)
section_title: Credits
hierarchical_section_title: Librairie Avant-Garde (Mount Wutai Branch) / Credits
caption_attribution_description: Español: Nankín - Librería Avant-Garde中文（中国大陆）‎: 南京先锋书店
context_page_description: Librairie Avant-Garde (Mount Wutai Branch) is a bookstore opened by Qian Xiaohua in 2004, now regarded as the most representative bookstore in Nanjing, China. It has become a cultural icon of the city, and because of the adjacency to Nanjing University and the popularity among students, it is dubbed as "the second library of Nanjing University".
  The bookshop is hidden in a former government parking lot underneath Wutaishan Stadium, which has been used as a bomb shelter. Covering 3780 sq meter, it provides a large volume of social science and humanities books that have been recognized by the literati and history, ranging from literature, history, philosophy, movie, music, photography, dance, drama, architecture, art, cartoon and advertisement to social science, business and journalism, while excluding reference work and other practical books.
context_section_description: Librairie Avant-Garde is one of the world's most beautiful independent bookstores, listed by BBC in 2014. Also rated as the most beautiful bookstore in China by CNN in 2015, and in August, was listed in the coolest bookstores in the world. The Librairie Avant-Garde is among the list 10 of the best industrial-chic spaces worldwide listed by The Guardian in 2016.
caption: panoramic view inside Librairie Avant-Garde
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