A documentary on the Mandarin Bookstore, the only existing Chinese bookstore in Jakarta Indonesia, introducing a group of Chinese Indonesians and their emotional attachment to their mother tongue, while addressing the future of this bookstore and preservation of its culture. 

Mandarin Bookstore, located in the Chinatown of Jakarta, Indonesia, had been through thirty years and now became the only Chinese bookstore in the region. For its elder readers, the bookstore bears their last attachment to their mother tongue. However, as the aging of customers and the shrinking of business, the bookstore is faced with severe challenges. How to save the bookstore became the critical concern of its initiator and many of the customers.

In the fall of 2019, the grandson of the initiator, John Yeo Suryawan, went to study Chinese education in Taiwan regardless of the opposition of his families. His grandfather Yoza Suryawan, the prestigious Chinese Indonesian in Jakarta passed away two years later, at the age of eighty-eight.

Language: Mandarin and Indonesian with Chinese and English Subtitles
Country: China
Genre: Documentary
Year: 2019
Runtime: 13 minutes