Friendship Store

A Friendship Store (simplified Chinese: 友谊商店; traditional Chinese: 友誼商店; pinyin: Yǒuyì Shāngdiàn) is a state-run store in People's Republic of China (PRC), which initially sold exclusively to tourists, foreigners, diplomats, and government officials but now has no restrictions on customers.

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Famous quotes containing the words friendship and/or store:

    Chinese do not repay friendship with death.
    Joseph O’Donnell, and Clifford Sanforth. Ah Ling, Murder by Television, when he is accused of Perry’s murder (1935)

    I see now that we store him up
    year after year, old suicides
    and I know at the news of your death,
    a terrible taste for it, like salt.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)