In China: Research on the Participation of Physical Bookstores in Public Cultural Services: Causes, Connotations and Paths

To conduct a literature study on the participation of physical bookstores in public cultural services in China, to identify the problems of the existing studies, and to provide directions for the mode and methodology of physical bookstores’ participation in public cultural services, relevant standards and evaluation mechanisms in the future. Facing the national strategic needs, according to the newly released national policies, taking the key issues in the research on the participation of brick-and-mortar bookstores in public cultural services as the guidance, we will establish the logical formula of “policy phenomenon—finding problems—analyzing problems—solving problems”, and explore the research progress of physical bookstores’ participation in public cultural services from the perspectives of reasons, connotations and paths.