It looks like a usual kiosk for displaying artifacts but you will find something unique when you step into the wooden structure inside Shanghai's Sinan Mansions, an 80,000-square-meter redevelopment of colonial mansions used for hotels, retails, condos and corporate villas.

The Sinan Bookstore is a 30-square-meter construction with around 3,000 books but it's only around for some 60 days. However, Shanghai bookaholics’ enthusiasm for this bookstore is not only restricted to this period as the shop also boasts that there is more to it than meets the eye.

According to the Shanghai Writers’ Association, the organizer of the flash bookstore, they are going to invite some famous Chinese writers to the bookstores each day and let them use this miniature but comfortable bookstore as their study, where they can recommend their favorite literary works to book lovers and display some of their study collections.

A series of illustrations are also about to be on display in the cultural space. Readers can walk in anytime to admire fantastic artworks and have a chance to discuss literature with these writers.

The pop-up store already started business on Sunday with its first distinguished guest Leo Ou-fan Lee, a Chinese commentator and author. During his stay there, Leo introduced one of his notable works, “Shanghai Modern” which evokes Shanghai in the 1980s and showed his collections.

Shanghai, an economically affluent city, is struggling to be a city of culture. In 2014, the Shanghai administration of press and publication allocated 23.5 million yuan (3.5 million US dollars) to subsidize physical bookstores. The organizer of the avant-garde bookstore also pinned hope on the new concept to involve more in reading, just as a customer said “[a] decent life not only includes material life but also consists of spiritual and cultural life.”