Bookstores and publishing houses sending out the scent of ink

The Bookstores and publishing houses that could be seen everywhere in North Sichuan Road, was the logo of Hongkou culture. There was a climate of ideas-spreading and of academic contention in Hongkou in 1930s and 1940s. In those years, the authors would be pround only if "North Sichuan Road" was printed on the spines of the books they wrote or on the magazines containing their articles.