When sound films first emerged, Charlie Chaplin was quite resistant to the format. He believed that dialogue diluted the purity of cinematic entertainment, so he persiste...

The period before the New Year is peak season for liquor sales, and every packaging supplier's production schedule is stretched to the limit. Yesterday, one supplier dela...

At the age of 26, the bewildering twists of life came in the form of a phone call. It was around 8:50 AM, and I was carefully backing into a parking spot downstairs at wo...

During July and August, I used my time commuting on buses, riding elevators, and even sitting on the toilet to finish all seven volumes of Those Things About the Ming Dyn...

I must have been about five years old then. My hazy memories start from that time. My father hadn't yet traveled far for work, but my mother had already gone to Guangdong...

I've watched Interstellar three times over and over again. The entire film's theoretical framework is built on relativity and wormhole theory. Fascinating as it is, I sti...

Geographically, the Qinling Mountains–Huai River line is considered China's north-south dividing line! A colleague came back from Inner Mongolia, bragging about eating la...

One Monday evening, while I was washing dishes and my mind was wandering, I suddenly remembered a bizarre text message a client had sent the evening before: "Got the sesa...