假如生活拒绝了你

我们这是一次写作的讨论会,话题是“如何对付退稿”(How to survive rejections). Rejections, 在写...
A friend, Yin Taiwu, visited me in the United States recently. He brought me tea from China, and interesting talks about making tea. Seeing him going through the steps of tea-making was a change from buying coffee from Starbucks or a 79-cent Big Gulp from 7-Eleven.
Tea-drinking is rather symbolic of the leisurely and slow life that intellectuals in the East used to enjoy and promote in a different ...