Great article just out in the United Airlines magazine this month, “What China’s Reading,” by Jeffrey Wasserstrom, which I read at the Bookworm cafe in Beijing, a wonderful place where one can linger for hours with coffee or wine surrounded by floor to nearly ceiling books, old and new. Check out the “cyber side-bar” in the Wasserstrom article, the author’s photo tour of Chinese bookstores. But it’s not always easy to take photos of bookstores, I find. I was about to take a photo at a bookstore in Shanghai a couple days ago and was stopped by the security guard. My guess is that they were concerned about copyright (and that’s not a bad thing). For good reason, too: at the Beijing Book Fair men with huge cameras walk around trying to get photos of Western book jackets. Last year I followed one and took his photo!