Building a Library from a List of Books

When literature teacher Yang Suqiu was seconded to a local culture and tourism bureau, she took charge of creating a public library from nothing. What looked like a clear process—bidding, renovation, selection, and cataloging—became a contest between cultural ideals and institutional reality.

This audiobook returns to the scene of that struggle and asks how a public library can balance expertise with openness, remain relevant in a digital age, and create more encounters between books and people. Audio is in Chinese.