在美國芝加哥北郊的艾雲斯頓小鎮上,有一家以經銷中國大陸出版的書刊而引人注目的‘北京書屋’。在这里,顧客不僅可以買到中國最近出版的書籍,訂閱百餘種中國期刊,還能瞭解到中國大陸的許多信息。每天都有不少美國人、旅美華僑和中國留學生光顧一這家書屋。人們稱它是‘中美人民的交誼所’。 這家書屋的主人是郑诚章先生,原籍江西鉛山縣,今年六十二歲。四十年代末離開大陸,曾到過台灣、泰國和美國等地,先後當過記者、編輯和教師。半輩子的筆墨生涯,使他對書業市場產生了特别的興趣。一九七一年他到美國芝加哥定居後,看到當地一家經銷中國大陸書刊的商店,由於營業不佳而遷走了。鄭先生為 At the town of Ainsund in the northern suburb of Chicago, USA, there is a ’Beijing Bookstore’ that attracts the attention of its distributors in mainland China. Here, customers can not only buy recently published books from China, subscribe to over a hundred Chinese journals, but also learn a lot about China. Every day, many Americans, overseas Chinese in America and Chinese students patronize this book house. People call it “friendship between the people of China and the United States.” The owner of this book house is Mr. Zheng Chengzhang, a native of Qianshan County, Jiangxi Province, who is 62 years old this year. In the late 1940s, he left the mainland and went to Taiwan, Thailand, the United States and other places and worked as a reporter, editor and teacher. His life-long pen and ink gave him a special interest in the book market. After settling in Chicago in the United States in 1981, he saw a local shop selling Chinese books and magazines, which was relocated due to poor business. Mr. Cheng is