Shanghai Confucian Temple （South Gate）

This guide to Shanghai Confucian Temple's Sunday secondhand book market follows bookseller Feng Haiming, who has sold comics from the same spot for more than seventeen years, and the market's start in the 1980s when publishers borrowed the idea from Paris's riverside booksellers. It traces the temple itself back to the Yuan dynasty and through its repeated destructions, from an armed uprising in the 1850s to the Cultural Revolution. Listen for the haggling as you step through the gate.