Fuzhou Road

Location: Fuzhou Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai 200002, China
What to buy: books, writing brushes, ink sticks, rice paper, ink stones, etc.

Fuzhou Road

Fuzhou Road has long been reputed as "Cultural Street" in Shanghai, for it is a far less flashly and frenzied street of books and culture. On both sides of the street are well-known book stores, time-honored stationery stores and publishing houses dealing in writing brushes, rice paper, ink stones, ink sticks, etc. Also there are Foreign Languages Bookstore and Shanghai Book City selling materials for western and Chinese arts and crafts. Shanghai Book City is said to be the largest bookstore in the city located at No.465, further along the road away form People's Square you can find the largest official Foreign Language Bookstore in Shanghai. and Foreign Languages Bookstore has three devoted to foreign language titles. Most of the materials here are in English with the first floor containing mostly souvenirs books about China history and English literary classics. Other novelty stores offer a wide selection of pretty greeting cards, silk paper, Huizhou rice paper, Zhoushanlian writing brushes, artistic painting frames, and etc. So it is a perfect place to pick up some new reading material or a new hobby.

Fuzhou Road

With over 30 bookstores in the district Fuzhou Road is said to have the highest density of such stores in Shanghai. Visitors also can find vast collection of Chinese and Western music CDs, DVDs, music videos, live concert video and cassette tapes at the sixth floor of the gargantuan, 7-storey Shanghai Book City.

Fuzhou Road does not just start and end with only books. In addition to a variety of bookstores, at No.701 Fuzhou Road on the left, there is Yifu Theater or Beijing Opera theatre. There is regular performance on weekends at 1: p.m. and 7:15 p.m.