While historic floods in China’s northern regions have devastated millions of lives and caused severe damage to farmland and infrastructure, one industry has been hit particularly hard: books. Since ...

Zhuozhou was one of the worst-affected areas. Numerous books were damaged by the floods, as the city housed more than 200 enterprises in the book industry, including printing houses, booksellers ...

The books that got ruined by the flood were frozen to -25C in industrial-size freezers so they could be recovered easily. Apparently, freezing the books can reduce the excess water and make them ...