July 9, 2004

Bound for Asia

By JEN LIN-LIU

A small nonprofit group has supplied more than half the English-language books in China's academic libraries

Boxes of books are waiting on the floor of a cold, drafty warehouse at Pier 23, wedged among several dozen containers of blanched peanuts that have just arrived from China. The pier serves as an intermediary point for the books -- once there is enough to fill a container, they'll be on their way across the Pacific.

Jeffrey A. Smith, co-founder of Bridge to Asia, a

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