Duoyun belongs to a gigantic Chinese publishing group which also owns several other bookstores in the city, including Sinan Books, but this flagship store is the most gorgeous. It is fifty-two floors up in Shanghai Tower, with a panoramic view of the Lujiazui area. The interior is designed by the same person who did the Sinan Books on Gaolan Lu — very modern but not sterile. This bookstore has long been a wanghong. When it first opened, the queue to get inside was over an hour. There are window seats where you can read or daydream above the clouds. In Chinese, there’s a great selection of literature and novels, and an English lit section by the London Review.