Open AccessPrivate vs. Public: Entrepreneurial Library Services for Children in China
Author(s) -
Jon Jablonski
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
children and libraries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2374-7641
pISSN - 1542-9806
DOI - 10.5860/cal.16.2.27
Subject(s) - beijing , china , visitor pattern , craft , center (category theory) , business , advertising , management , media studies , visual arts , art , political science , sociology , law , economics , computer science , chemistry , crystallography , programming language
At 8:30 on a cold November Sunday morning in 2014, I met Echo Liu in southern Beijing, an hour’s drive away, far from the renovated alleyways and Forbidden City of the city center.Echo and a handful of helpers were busy preparing her children’s library, a library that she owns and operates as a private business, for a 9 a.m. storytime and craft activity that would feature a foreign visitor.