Poetry and Profits

For a long time, Xiao Mo, a Beijing-based travel blogger, had been thinking of visiting the Lonely Library, a neobrutalist structure on the beach at Aranya Resort in Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province. Last winter, Xiao traveled to the building for the first time to witness first-hand the impressive sunrise views from the site she had seen in videos online. "Many other tourists were there despite the cold weather," she told Beijing Review.