Hearing this, Li Shifei looked anxious, "When did it happen? Why didn't you tell me?"

He immediately used Lin Chaoyang's home phone number to contact Huacheng Publishing House and told the editorial staff to pay attention to the letters sent by "Harvest" in Shanghai. He hung up the phone after repeated explanations.

Being interrupted like this by Lin Chaoyang, Li Shifei's intention of raising an army to accuse him faded away, but he still couldn't help but complain that Lin Chaoyang was not interesting enough.

Then he chatted with Lin Chaoyang about the plot and writing experience of "Enter the Master", and he was full of expectations for this novel.

"By the way, your article "Flower City" written by the Japanese Literature Research Association was reprinted this month, and the response was quite good!"

Li Shifei was talking about the article "The Evolution of Xu Lingjun's Creative Style in the Mid-to-late 1980s" published in the Journal of Lin Chaoyang (Japan) Literary Research Association.

Reprinting foreign literary works, literary hot events or reviews has always been a major feature of "Flower City", and it is also one of the important reasons why they have stood out among many domestic literary journals since their establishment.

In recent years, Lin Chaoyang has had a close cooperative relationship with Huacheng Publishing House, and they are also very concerned about the spread of Lin Chaoyang's works overseas.

From time to time, I will read reviews or reactions about Lin Chaoyang’s works from some overseas literary publications.

Then the translation was reprinted in his own magazine without any psychological burden.

This type of article is usually well received by many readers after being published, not only because Lin Chaoyang has so many readers, but more importantly because of the national sentiments of the readers.

Why can many foreigners in future generations eat "I love China"?

Isn’t it just that he has grasped the mentality of the Chinese people?

However, compared to the false "friendly" atmosphere created by Douyin in later generations, the popularity of Lin Chaoyang's works is more real. After all, there is no money to be made in praising Chinese writers or Chinese works these days.

After the publication of "The Evolution of Xu Lingjun's Creative Style in the Mid-to-late 1980s", it not only gained popularity among readers, but also attracted the attention of critics.

Among the three works created by Lin Chaoyang after living in Hong Kong, "Parasite" has a relatively better reputation in the mainland, while "The Truman Show" and "Big Time" do not have such a high reputation among critics.

After the publication of "The Truman Show", it encountered accusations of "false narrative" and "being divorced from reality". The film adaptation of the same name won awards overseas and its reputation immediately rebounded.

In comparison, "The Great Era" is much worse. It has always been considered by critics as a "popular novel" and a Waterloo in Lin Chaoyang's creative career.

The reason why the literary world noticed this article was mainly because it mentioned the concept of "Hong Kong Trilogy".

Whether in the literary world or in other fields, style is very important.

How to create a strong style, a very effective method is to first create a concept.

For example, "Lin Chong, the Instructor of the Eight Hundred Thousand Forbidden Army", who would be shocked when this name is mentioned?

But in fact, there were 5,700 such Forbidden Army instructors in the Northern Song Dynasty, and they were just a low-ranking official from the eighth rank.

Of course, Lin Chong himself is still awesome.

The article "Flow" proposed the concept of "Hong Kong Trilogy" for the same reason. It feels like it immediately made Lin Chaoyang's three novels more powerful, including "The Great Era", which was originally not highly rated.

It has also become more advanced.

Another example is "Liangshan One Hundred and Eight Generals, Thirty-six Tiangang Stars, and Seventy-two Earthly Evil Stars." Don't worry about whether there are useless people like Shi En, Kong Ming, and Kong Liang mixed in. Once the names are announced, who is a hero?

Not immediately arrogant? Not respected by others?

In the same way, the concept of "Hong Kong Trilogy" was first proposed by the Japanese, and the domestic critics also made mistakes.

Were our previous evaluations of these works too harsh? Japanese people all said they were good after watching them.

The Chinese have advocated modesty since ancient times, which is a very bad concept.

If you do well and others praise you, this is a good thing.

You have to be humble on the face but feel good about yourself in your heart. Doing so will generally lead to two results.

You may really become a humble gentleman, but the probability is extremely low. After all, there are never many moral saints.

There is a high probability that he will become a hypocrite who is not what he looks like and what he is, and a confused person who does not distinguish between good and bad.

So why do "foreign monks chant sutras"?

Because you are not what you appear and what you are, you don’t distinguish between good and bad. If a monk from outside doesn’t have so many scruples and tells the truth, doesn’t what he says become the truth?

On the other hand, you, a "modesty gentleman", have become a clown.

The emergence of the concept of "Hong Kong Trilogy" corresponds to the saying "flowers bloom inside the wall and fragrance outside the wall", giving critics and readers a new understanding of these three works.

After talking about the reaction caused by the article "Flow", Li Shifei decided to go back to Guangzhou when he saw that everything was fine.

Lin Chaoyang grabbed him and asked him to have a meal at home in the evening.

In the evening, Li Shifei had dinner at home and chatted with Tao Yushu about the development of "The King of Comics" in the past few months.

Nowadays, although Japanese animations such as "Doraemon" and "Astro Boy" have been introduced in China, Japanese comics have not yet been introduced. "Manga King" now focuses on Hong Kong comics, which is undoubtedly a dimensionality reduction blow to the domestic comic book industry.

After the sales of a single issue exceeded 300,000 copies in December, the sales performance of "The King of Manga" has not been stagnant and has been growing rapidly.

By March this year, the sales of the latest issue had exceeded 800,000 copies.

It seems that the breakthrough of one million copies in a single issue happened in these two months.

Hearing such news, Tao Yushu's eyebrows were filled with joy.
Chapter completed!