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| 19th June 2009 imhere whereru | Library - From: April 3, 2009. Living in China. Shenzhen Library Visit Thanks for your reply. I did not mean I had a bad experience at the library. I was just describing what happened to me. I assumed foreigners were given special treatment beacuse I din't see anyone else leaving a deposit when checking out books. If I did not understand someting, I am sorry. The books I tried to donate were like new. No one asked their titles. No one looked at them. That is why I thought there was a translation problem. My books were in much better condition than 99% of the books on the shelves. Since I wrote the post I have discovered a book exchange club. The members meet from time to time and trade foreign language books. A great idea!! |
| 19th June 2009 Meteor | Shenzhen Library as I know! - From: April 3, 2009. Living in China. Shenzhen Library Visit In my opinion, I do not think "Foreigners are given special treatment at the Shenzhen Library. It seems that foreigners have a bad habit of leaving the country with library books." In fact, all the readers, Chinese or Foreigners, who want to check out oversea books are asked to leave a deposit of 200 yuan. It is simply because those books are much more expensive than those books published inland China and most of the oversea books do not have more copies. It has nothing to do with the habit of the foreign readers. And for book donations, as I know, Shenzhen library accepts book donations for those books it does not have. So, perhaps, you'd better make it sure through the net whether they had the books or not before you donate your books. And the library does not accept material in poor physical condition. Like many other libraries, Shenzhen library has the right to decide whether to use those books or not. Wish you a better experience in Shenzhen library! Meteor |
| 19th March 2009 imhere whereru | Reply - From: Buddhist Temple Visit I do not speak Chinese, but as best I can tell it is the temple at the Fairy Lake Botanical Garden . I believe it is Liantang. |
| 14th March 2009 dilemma | - From: Buddhist Temple Visit .....i've never been that temple.in ShenZhen?.. or the countryside?i live in GuangZhou |
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