This gorgeous Chinese-language bookstore in Orchard proves that physical bookstores aren't dead
March 09, 2021 Zall Bookstore Amid the flurry of pandemic-driven retail closures, a new bookstore is braving the waters in Orchard Road Zall Bookstore, an outlet for Chinese-language titles, opened this month at Wheelock Place, near where the iconic Borders flagship was located till its closure in 2011. The two-storey space stocks more than 30,000 books, mostly in Chinese, witha cafe and an art gallery also on the premises. The Singapore store is the first overseas branch for Zall, which has four bookshops in Hubei, China. Zall Bookstores was founded in 2013 by billionaire Yan Zhi, a write...