![]() ![]() Armed mostly with a zest for film direction, Jimmy had almost no idea what Beijing would look like before he came here. Ten years ago, Jimmy came to Beijing to study film directing at the Beijing Film Academy, the country's major cradle for movie directors and shining film stars. Sitting at a wooden table on the second floor, Jimmy smiles and says the spirit of his café is to let people express themselves freely and to give them some creative space. If you pay a visit you can find traces of different people, especially the young with dreams, who come here for a cup of coffee, or just a cosy rest. Jimmy used it to name his coffee shop, because it implies the recording of the passing of time, leaving different traces on one's life.Īnd just as indicated in the name of the coffee shop, many people have sculpted a certain period of their time here in his café. The café by the Beijing Institute of Technology is his third to bear the name Sculpting in Time the name comes from Soviet treatise on cinema by director Andrei Tarkovsky. Though the number of his coffee shops falls far short of competitors like Starbucks, they are never short of customers and are frequented by nearby college students, young people and intellectual types.Ī: Life in China visited one of his coffee shops situated by the Beijing Institute of Technology where we talked with Jimmy about his life and work here in Beijing. Two of his current three outlets are situated near university complexes in Beijing, and the other on the beautiful Fragrant Hills in the city's Northwestern outskirts. Zhuang Songlie, or Jimmy Zhuang is the owner of a famous café company based in Beijing, and his business has a very poetic name-Sculpting in Time. ![]()
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