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Architect Liu Jiakun transforms an old granary in Baiwu village into a visually appealing modern bookstore through the imaginative use of a type of strengthened bamboo composite.\u00a0[Photo provided to China Daily] <\/p>\n
The day before Huize Rural Bookstore of Librairie Avant-Garde in Baiwu village of Nagu town opened in late May, Zhang Ruifeng received a text message that two of three balloons disappeared from the field where they were installed.<\/p>\n
Located in Huize county, Qujing in Yunnan province, the bookstore is a new branch of the Nanjing-based bookstore chain, Librairie Avant-Garde, in Jiangsu province. Zhang is its rotating president.<\/p>\n
The three balloons were part of the Librairie Avant-Garde Poetry Festival, which Chen Qinshaofu and his team attached poem posters to throughout the village.<\/p>\n
“Baiwu (white fog) is a poetic name. Poetry is a signature section in the bookstore, so we thought, “why not organize a poetry festival in the village’,” Zhang says.<\/p>\n
Growing up in a village in Northeast China’s Jilin province, Chen, 32, runs a poetry-themed shop in Kunming, Yunnan. When he first arrived in the village, he recalled his early days in the countryside.<\/p>\n
“When I walked around the village, several poetic details emerged in my mind,” he says.<\/p>\n
“I love German poet Jan Wagner. His poem Nail would look great on a door or wall. Welsh R.S. Thomas’ poems about village life and Seamus Heaney’s works, like Digging, The Pitchfork and The Forge, also fit perfectly in a village setting,” he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Architect Liu Jiakun transforms an old granary in Baiwu village into a visually appealing modern bookstore through the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,83708,77,83707,83706,16,15,80598],"class_list":{"0":"post-209155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-booksore","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-poetry-festival","12":"tag-rural-bookstore","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-yunnan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114735828512681750","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}