Vientiane in the world | the cross-strait relationship of Wang Sen, a coffee expert in mainland China

The location of the cafe "the aftermath is not over".

"the aftermath is not over" is the name of a cafe in Taipei, and now it is also the name of a book. "aftereffect" is the "aftereffect" of Wang Xiaobo, a famous writer in mainland China, and "unfinished" expresses the memory of Wang Sen, a coffee expert on the mainland.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Wang Xiaobo's death, and the aftermath recently held a new book launch in Taipei, Taiwan.com reported. Wang Sen said that writing this book is of course in the hope that more people will meet Wang Xiaobo, because he is so interesting! The title of the book was decided in 2012, but it took a long time to start writing. In a flash, five years have passed. Instead, the cafe named "aftermath" opened first.

It has been more than two years since the cafe opened, and it is filled with all kinds of works by Wang Xiaobo, both simplified and traditional. Wang Xiaobo's quotation cards can be found everywhere on the bookshelves. It says, "most of the polymorphisms are created by people who are quick to think."

The articles included in the new book "unfinished waves" use titles used by Wang Xiaobo, such as "Silent majority", "A maverick pig", "fun of thinking" and so on. Wang Sen pays tribute to Wang Xiaobo with this kind of old title and new content.

"Twenty years have passed, and I often wonder, if Bo had lived to the present and seen the present world, what would he have said and written?" Wang Sen, with a bald head and black-rimmed glasses, always mentions "Xiaobo" with gratitude. He told reporters that the book is a record that tells him about the world now.

"this book is actually Wang Sen's" Wang Xiaobo's words ", a kind of" intellectuals "dialogue across time and space." Taiwan writer Luo Yijun wrote in the preface that Wang Sen's love for Wang Xiaobo can be compared to the same emotion he promoted for the coffee shop: the possibility of a future study of this civilization can be neither numb, nothingness, or ruthless. Any strange feeling can have emotional imagination.

As early as 1994, the concept of Wang Sen, who was wandering everywhere, began to change after reading Wang Xiaobo. He said that Wang Xiaobo's book aroused his interest in reading, opened his horizons, and saw the possibilities of people and life. "if I hadn't met Wang Xiaobo, I might have been just a gangster or a villain."

In 2007, Wang Sen opened his first coffee shop in Beijing, with the name "staggered coffee". The name "stagger" comes from a sentence by the British philosopher Russell: "you know, stagger polymorphism is the source of happiness." Wang Xiaobo likes this sentence very much, and it has become Wang Sen's guide and idea of running a cafe over the past decade.

Over the past ten years, while running coffee shops, Wang Sen has also established the "staggered Coffee Dream School" to promote coffee culture and business philosophy, training more than 2000 students and opening more than 1000 cafes. He also published bestsellers such as "just want to Open a small Cafe" and "staggered because of you".

On his first trip to Taiwan in October 2012, Wang Sen fell in love with Taipei: "the smell of life here makes me feel more comfortable." It not only has the modern culture and order of Western cities, but also has the convenience and comfort brought by the industrious characteristics of mainlanders that people are kind and familiar with. "

Since then, he has come to Taipei five times a year and met Luo Yijun and many other Taiwanese friends through cafes. In his view, Taipei's coffee culture is highly developed, the average level is high, and many independent shops have their own personalities and pursuits. In contrast, the coffee industry in the mainland is currently in a stage of rapid expansion, and the product quality has improved rapidly, but more improvements are needed in the attribute building of cultural public space.

Wang Sen regards the cafe as an important cultural public space in urban life. He said that people should not only be in the relationship between consanguinity and interests, but also need a "third kind of relationship" that is non-utilitarian and comfortable. "Cafe is the best place to have a third type of relationship. The frequent friends in my life come from cafes. "

In order to find a reason for himself to stay in Taipei, and to commemorate Wang Xiaobo's special fate with Taiwan, Wang Sen decided to open his own cafe in Taipei.

As early as 1991, Taiwan's United Daily News awarded the literature award to Wang Xiaobo, who was unknown at that time, and the Golden Age was serialized in its supplement and published in Taiwan in August 1992. Soon after, Wang Xiaobo officially resigned from the university and became a freelance writer.

Wang Sen said that this award and prize have at least strengthened the confidence that Xiaobo's writing can "maintain a living." thanks to the discerning eyes of Taiwan's literary circles, Xiaobo has become a professional writer who blossoms inside and outside the wall. "in Taipei to commemorate Wang Xiaobo with the 'unfinished aftermath' cafe implies my gratitude to this place."

Wang Sen, 48, has many dreams: to bring Taiwan's best craftsman resources to the mainland to set up a special entrepreneurial university. But in any case, "when I retire in the future, I will stay in Taipei, guarding this cafe and introducing to everyone who doesn't know Wang Xiaobo: once upon a time, there was such a man, his name was Wang Xiaobo, and he was an interesting person."