跟前一篇通讯(见《读书》一九八四年第一期)所介绍的第三十五届国际书籍博览会一样,这次书展举行的地点也在德国西部的文化中心法兰克福,然而时间却要早得多,即在半个多世纪之前的一九二八年。它的规模远远没法和当今世界的国际大书展相比,但是对于我们中国的文化界和出版界来说,却似乎更加值得注意。因为这是一次别开生面的展览,和我们关系密切的展览,题名为“中国的书和关于中国的书”(“Das Buch in China und das Buch uber China”), Like the 35th International Book Fair presented in the previous newsletter (see Reading, Issue 1, 1984, first edition), the book fair was also held in Frankfurt, the cultural center of western Germany, Much earlier, that is, in 1928 more than half a century ago. Its scale is far from comparable to the international big book fair in the world today, but it seems even more noteworthy for our Chinese cultural and publishing circles. Because this is an extraordinary exhibition, an exhibition closely related to us, titled “The Book of China and the Book of China” (“Das Buch in China und das Buch uber China”),