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Idle Pleasure

Jennifer Bin

A newsletter focused on 吃喝玩乐, a Chinese proverb referring to idling away one's life in pleasure-seeking (usually through eating, drinking and making merry).

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Latest Issues

No Two Teapots are the Same: Shi Yingzhi’s Rare Earth

A 之一 signature cracked zisha teapot in my tea setting.

I met Shi Yingzhi 史英之 in a small lane outside his workshop on the outskirts of Jingdezhen Ceramic University campus. It was a sunny winter afternoon in Jingdezhen, and I had just arriv...

3 months ago
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半米茶席, The Half Meter Tea Ceremony

Drinking tea on a sandy beach at Lake Constance.

As a tea enthusiast, I’ve always been interested in the differences between Chinese and Japanese tea culture. While tea drinking can be ceremonial in China (like the tea ceremony at Chinese...

8 months ago
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The Rites of Spring

A tea meeting (茶会) under sakura blossoms.

There’s no time where my longing for spring is greater than in the depths of winter. I started writing this post in spring but ended up getting caught up in all the reverie (spring is an amazing ti...

a year ago
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sleeping under the stars

Matterhorn view from a wild camping trip I took in Zermatt.

I just returned from my first winter camping experience. A group of colleagues and I built an igloo in the mountains from scratch, and I slept in it (kind of, if you count laying...

2 years ago
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photographing strangers

spectators on the circle line touring manhattan island

I’ve always had a love a hate relationship with street photography.

Someone once took a photo of me (with pink hair) walking down the street in Shanghai, and posted it on a stock ima...

2 years ago
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