A young American joins world-renowned Pu’er tea expert Robert Painter on a journey to a famous tea mountain in rural Yunnan. In their search for a tea with purported healing powers, Robert and the narrator traverse the collective unconscious to where tea and Sino-Western relations can make a difference.
A new illustrated edition centered on one of the great recurring subjects of Tang Dynasty poetry: drinking. Poems of friendship, solitude, celebration, exile, humor, and mortality are brought together in forms designed for contemporary readers. Featuring works by the immortals of Chinese drinking, Li Bai and Du Fu.
At the birth of the AI age, Jane, a young engineer, works remotely for a firm building the data centers that power it. When a merger costs her her job, she is forced to confront the event that left her dependent on machines. Jane lands on her feet at a new firm, only to discover that some of the people around her may not be quite what they seem.