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    ROMANTIC REALISM

    May 26, 2022 4 minutes
    By Li Qing
    Copyedited by Elsbeth van Paridon

    Video may have killed the radio star, but it appears no virus can kill the bookstore.

    “Since the pandemic first broke out, not one positive case has been found in a bookshop. This line has become popular among China’s literature-loving netizens,” Wang Lei said. In 2018, he founded Beijingbased chain Leiter which includes more than 20 shops around the Chinese capital.

    We never could have imagined the pandemic would last this long, he told . Leiter’s overall foot traffic has declined by 80 percent from pre-pandemic levels. But it’s not just a problem facing this chain; it’s an industrywide issue.

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