Xidan Bookshop

Save
  • Address
    17 Xichang'an Jie, Xidān
  • Show map Close map
  • Phone
    6607 8477
  • Transport
    underground rail: Xidan

Let us know if these details are incorrect

Lonely Planet review

The titles at this absolutely vast bookshop (Běijīng's largest) are largely Chinese, but the basement is home to what might be the city's best selection of English-language titles. There are all the classics, Austen, Dickens, Hemingway, Twain et al, but there are also books on China that have slipped past the beady eye of the censor, as well as an expanding range of new fiction. You can pick up Lonely Planet guides and maps of Běijīng here too.