Why China’s Libraries Are Always Full | A Night Inside the National Library of China

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10695948

Visiting the National Library of China in Beijing — the largest library in Asia and one of the largest libraries in the world — to understand why so many people come here to study.

Through a night visit and a real-time tour, I look beyond the architecture to focus on the people inside: what they are studying, how long they study for, and why libraries in China play such an important role in everyday life.