I live in China and recently purchased these Weiqi books (mainly problem books, so limited Chinese language skills needed). The bookshop (Xinhua Books) had about 3 shelves full of Weiqi books on floor 5.
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Where are you in China?
I live in Wuxi (near to Shanghai). But actually got these in a huge bookshop in Chongqing.
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Hope you enjoy them!
Once there were many (several in Beijing as I know) dedicated go book stores and you can find all interesting things inside. However they are less popular now as webpages and videos have overtaken books in Chinese go population nowadays.
Also if you need any help with either the language or finding more books journals etc, just leave me a message. I have some journals but unfortunately do not have time to read. I can mail them to u if you’re in wuxi.
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I explored Chengdu well in years 2005-2012, especially for Weiqi books and meeting places. To my knowledge there were only 2 exclusive book sellers, the central weiqi club and another small book shop in the center-east.
Usual general book stores (like xinhua) hold a bit more weiqi books as now but at that time already some of them were suffering of lack of buyers and reducing, even closing their spaces.
Chengdu had (I dunno if still exist) a big book mall in the center, like more for distributors (wholesale). At the second floor were the 2d hand bookshops and in a few of them a very large choice of weiqi books. Was really cheap, under a euro each.
Next place I visited was Hong Kong, and it was really interesting too. More opportunities to find go books. They were not the same as in Mainland, lot of them coming from Taiwan edition (many translation of Nihon Kiin). Easy to see because written in traditional Chinese. Even you have a big japanese shopping mall with weiqi books in Japanese (but so expensive, lol)
Across the years, bookstores limit themselves to sell only new edition ( implying a small stock and quick turnover) a bit fashion (AI, famous tournaments or pro players) and always some go school books (mostly collections of graded problems)
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Hi Kefeiwu. Thanks for your reply. Yes, I might be interested in Go journals. I’ll PM you.
Hello Groin. Thanks for your reply. Hong Kong, I have not explored too much. Good to know.