The best fashion and gift stores China

The Golden Centre at Nathan Road at Shamshuipo metro Station offers interesting electronic products. Specialized channels offer more reliable service and more attractive prices than some retail stores. The chains of the Fortress and Broadway stores for Hi-Fi and audio-visual equipment have advantages in terms of warranty and after-sales services. It is imperative to purchase equipment from resellers accredited to the Hong Kong Tourism Board. They display on their storefront a logo with a red junk. Each purchase must be accompanied by an international guarantee.

Chungking Residences is well suited for its cosmopolitan atmosphere and the plethora of small signs on two floors. Clothing, electronics, baggage, crafts, manicure… If you want to have a suit, think good negotiating before, but work is generally well done and reasonable prices.

Western Market is a beautiful Edwardian building, restored in 1991, home to about Chinese fabrics and Crafts shops. In the vicinity (Bonham Strand East and West, Sutherland Street, Wing Lok Street…), the streets carve out an impressive wholesale market of all kinds of medicinal plants and terrestrial or salted marine or sea-to-sea (to each evil). These stores feed the city's herboristeries and represent the mainstay of Chinese medicine. A walk not to be missed. There is nothing to be impressed with the quantities exposed and the appearance of certain products that are difficult to identify (dried snakes, giant mussels, deer horns), all nicely and perfectly presented.

The Shanghai Museum Shop also offers a number of books in English on history, art and culture.

Foreign language dictionaries and manuals, Chinese methods. Selection of foreign magazines and newspapers. Beautiful books, novels in English, maps and Cds.

Chinese classical literature, calligraphy manuals and art equipment.

Sale of workshops production.

Established in 1929, one of China's largest silk plants: annual production of 400 tons of gross silk, 100 tonnes of woven fabrics and more than 300 000 pieces made. Great selection for sale on site. Visit of the very interesting factory. Nothing is lost: a range of beauty products has been developed from organic and plant elements from cocoons after feeding the silk thread.

Great choice. Pretty cheap.

The most important.

Shanghai store branch.

Collection of garments in natural materials (silk, cotton, linen) intended for export at very low prices.

Several other small shops just next to Soho Silk at 178 Zhongshan Beilu sell a loan to more than interesting prices. Try its luck also on the section of the Zhongshan Lu between Gulou and Xinjiekou. In Confucius Temple district (Fuzimiao), Jiangsu Silk Corporation (Jiangsu Sheng Sichou Gongsi) at 30 of Gongyuan Xijie - Tel (025) 4400 200.

Also sells calligraphy, artists'paintings, and art equipment.

The second largest bookstore, well-stocked in English books, many of them on China.

The largest bookstore in Beijing, which also includes a CD and DVD floor and a part of books in English on the top floor.

Place of meetings of the intellectual, cultural and artistic circles of Chengdu and… de passage to Chengdu. Tang Danhong, a young woman aged 30, opened this bookstore in 1995. She offers a very personal selection of books meticulously found in the best publishing houses across China. Reference works on authors, art, Western history; novels and philosophical studies translated into Chinese. China's largest tibétologie library! Spacious, comfortable room, open to the public to enjoy a peaceful chat around the main main table. Guaranteed meetings, cup of tea offered free of charge by the house.

A large clothing shop, not necessarily cheap.

Another shopping mall in the east of the river.

Small library specialized in French works with a very good selection of Anglo-Saxon books. Chen Tong is a lover of our country's literature and strives to convey his passion to the Chinese since 1994 through this library and his publishing house specialized in translations: in 1997, Alain Robbe-Grillet's complete works were added to works by Barthes, Foucault and other contemporary philosophers. Much of the stock comes from Hong Kong, and Chen offers a Home Delivery Service for scholars from the Chinese countryside.

Bookstore offering books and maps in English.