Bookshops to host late-night reading festival

About 30 bookshops in downtown Shanghai will collaborate to launch a late-night reading festival from June 5 to 30.

During this period, the bookstores will host special sales, book signings, lectures and other events every Friday and Saturday night.

Sinan Books, located in a vintage building at Sinan Mansions on Fuxing Road Middle, will open 50 late night desks for readers between 8 pm and midnight every weekend.

Sinan Books in downtown Shanghai will open 50 late night desks for readers every weekend during the festival from June 5 to 30. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Another bookstore, The Space of Light, which is under the Xinhua Bookstore franchise, will put up pavilions and create a marketplace of books.

Other shops of the Xinhua group will also extend their opening hours during the weekends.