A display shows signed books in the JF Books bookstore in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Residents pass by the shuttered Text&Image bookstore in Shanghai, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Yu Miao, right, owner of JF Books, looks at his phone as customers browse the books in his bookstore in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

A man rides past the shuttered Text&Image bookstore in Shanghai, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Yu Miao, owner of JF Books, poses by a wall of photographs showing his previous bookstore in Shanghai, at his bookstore in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

The shuttered Text&Image bookstore is seen in Shanghai, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Yu Miao, owner of JF Books, poses for a photograph in his bookstore in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

The shuttered Text&Image bookstore is seen in Shanghai, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)