Musician JinR (Zhang Jinjie) opened her first teahouse in Beijing in 1997. Tucked away in Sanlitun, the city's diplomatic quarters and popular night life center, the 12-sq-m room was big enough for just three tables and her favorite instruments - the yangqin (dulcimer) and guzheng (seven-stringed plucked instrument similar to the zither).
If you had a choice, which era would you live in? I prefer Shanghai in the 1930s, because I love reading Qian Zhongshu's Besieged City.
Pang Yong is at Starbucks drinking a latte but he's ready to pounce. Students pass by, some of them attractive and fashionable, but Pang doesn't give them a second glance. He's looking for something special, that would be at home in the pages of Vogue.
In sub-zero cold, I joyfully marched across the barren garden towards our building. With running nose and numb toes, I carried a pile of pine boards as if it were my precious dream.
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