Yuan's Place
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Summer is the best season of this place. Sunshine, trees, flowers, campground, and swimming pools are people's most love. Sweet smiles on girls’ face and steady please and thank you from guys' mouth in every shop you visit make sure you are still in heaven. Grilled chicken, marinated, fries and salad, dish everyone wants to order in all seasons comes into everyone's home, a gas powered BBQ oven in one's back yard is definitely an asset. When time past 5pm, lines of traffic on the high way facing the coming down sun in the slightly reddish and golden shiny sky move slowly and quietly. TVs just finish American soap opera and get ready to let everyone know what happen in the world and the city today. When the sky turns dark, local restaurants, bars, dance clubs and downtown streets are full with people's laughs, jokes and humours. Restless city! The next morning, an alarm wakes you up. After coffee, toast and a TV newsbreak and a couple of phones calls to the bank and the insurance company and stockbrokers, you are on your way to work with your new Pontiac Grand AM. At the lunch break. Grilled chicken, marinated with fries come across your mind, one more thing, salad and coffee, maybe Pepsi. Formats Book Details Sha Yan’s work, Yuan’s Place represents the peace, beauty and truth as well as the idealistic thinking of his mind and his thoughts. These reflect in his work published in this book, Yuan’s Place. It is a collection of his work with meanings of love, relationship, peace, beauty, truth, spirit and after all, life in general. The main theme of John’s work, “Yuan’s Place” is about love and relationship. John is poetic, which mainly reflect in his poetry work and his prose fictions. John's stylish writing was also represented in his stories “It snowed the night after dawn” and “Bird that flies”. These mini stories are critical, lyrical, tacit and narrated with John’s silent beautiful touch of English. John’s poetry work, “No longer lonely” has been projected to be published on an American poetry anthology “Eternal Portraits.” This piece of poetry is John’s translation from his own Chinese work under the same title in Chinese. His poetic talent are recognized by the publication. John’s stylish writing is his habit of writing in Chinese poetry, prose fiction and fiction. He applied this style of thinking and writing in English. It is different from the writings in the west, most of them are mainly critical. John is a Christian with a tendency of Taoism belief. That is why the truth of the world, beauty of the nature and natural harmony and love of people are represented in his work. John is a critical thinker, that is why his work are not only beautiful, but also critical. His work also reflects his idealistic thinking about love, life, spirit and nature, as well as God and eternity. John’s thinking and his work has helped him to become a better and happy person. Sha Yan, true name John Xiao-Cong Hu, is a writer, a poet and a lay-off engineer and a consultant. He is an university graduate with a science major from a Canadian University. Now he lives in Montreal, Canada. These works of his represent his writing talent and artistic style in English. He also writes fiction, prose and poetry in Chinese.
Seasonal alternation comes fast, moments of glory on maples and oaks with some aged dark brownish grayish barks slipped away from my mind. Yearly sea brushed natural stones on the shore standing tall and round from coast to coast are all over in this place. The prime time on newscast is always fast paced at clock speed. Slowly, the first crystal shiny snow flick drops to this Northern land. By the time Christmas comes, exhausted year and passionate people in the city and the country are all celebrating in their home beside their fireplace or at dinner parties. Nut Cracker and Tin Soldier are the best Christmas shows here.
On the other side of the earth, in the early morning northern China, traditional hot soymilk with a deep fried historical bread stick takes everyone's dinner table. At about the same time, Tiananmen Square and parks scattered throughout the city fill with people at all ages practicing Qi Kong and Chinese martial arts. After 8am, streets are full of bicycles and motor vehicles. The city gets busy. Beijing has lots of government departments, agencies, and universities and research institutes and companies from local and all over the world, as the capital city of China. Shopping centres, supermarkets and stores in the city open their doors at nine. They are the best places for visitors, housewives and some others. Sports centres and gyms in the morning are not very busy, but personnel are all looking at engaging for the afternoon. One quarter past ten, an old retired factory worker brings his tea cup, joining two others carrying their tea cups and Chinese chess set at the corner, heading to the park two blocks north. When the lunch time comes, Chinese fried chicken competing with Kentucky fried chicken beside McDonalds does not attract a lot of customers' attention, rather in beef noodle restaurant next to them, a line is formed. Well, McDonalds then, impatient young men and well dressed office women are arguing. Their older aged male manager say, let's have Korean BBQ beef. Of course, the check will be billed on corporate credit card. Time past three, busy phone lines still make receptionist headache transferring callers to managers, associates, agents and others. By 5pm, one associate still hasn’t figured out how he will finish his own work, the manager requested him to work it out for the remaining of the day. He will get a good pay for his overtime, and if he did a good job, he would be better rated for the once a year yearly bonus. And his good work will be directly reported confidentially to the company headquarter in Hong Kong. That means the next time his manager went to a different department, his record would be shown on company president's name list. Well, 7% GDP growth in modern China every year does not come from nothing, and it does not lead to nothing.
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