深圳书城南山城

This guide to Nanshan Book City in Shenzhen opens with an odd detail: the metro station outside carries the bookstore's name, not a government office's. It traces Shenzhen's leap from a border town declared a Special Economic Zone in 1980 to a tech metropolis nicknamed China's Silicon Valley, and sets that reputation against a different distinction the city earned from UNESCO in 2013. The seven-floor building itself holds two hundred thousand titles across twenty themed sections, with an entire floor for children and one wing housing the city's largest comics mall.