The academic salon of Lin Chaoyang (China) Literary Research Association was successfully defeated at Yanda University. Overall, this is a successful academic conference. Its success is not only reflected in the academic achievements produced by members in the past year, but also in the increase in the number of member applicants this year.

When the research association was first established last year, most of the initial members were professors and associate professors from top domestic universities such as Yan University, Renmin University, and Yan Normal University, with a total of 18 people.

The research institute accepted new applications a year ago and received more than 70 application forms at once.

The research association is not a student club, but has a very high entry threshold. It is not only about the hard regulations such as academic qualifications and professional titles. The most important thing is to have research results on Lin Chaoyang himself and his works.

This number of applicants really caught the research association off guard and spent a lot of time to review.

There is an important reason why many scholars actively apply is that the Lin Chaoyang Literary Research Association is more than the only one in China.

As early as the beginning of the founding of the Chinese Literary Research Association, it reached cooperation with the American and Japanese Literary Research Associations in an academic exchange activity. Every year, both sides will send scholars to exchange and study.

The exchange university in the United States is Yale University, the exchange university in Japan is Japanese university, and the domestic one is naturally Yenching University.

When you go abroad to exchange and go to top universities in the United States and Japan, it is a rare opportunity for domestic scholars, especially those majoring in literature. Such opportunities are very few, so everyone's enthusiasm is understandable.

Hong Zicheng is the secretary-general of Lin Chaoyang (China) Literary Research Association. After the academic salon, he talked to Lin Chaoyang about the development of the research association in the past year.

The salon's report also mentioned the development of the research association at the beginning, but many details were still not mentioned on the table.

When he talked about the development of the Literary Research Association, he had a little pride on his face, and the current situation can be said to be booming.

"How is your novel written?" After talking about the situation of the research meeting, Hong Zicheng was concerned about Lin Chaoyang's creation again.

After all, the meaning of the existence of the Research Society is to study Lin Chaoyang's literary works.

It has been almost three years since the publication of "The Right Way on Earth is Vicissitudes" and there are no new works in three years, which is not Lin Chaoyang's style.

"The first volume has just been written, and I still have to modify it to check for the shortcomings and make up for the gaps," said Lin Chaoyang.

Hong Zicheng also knew that the work Lin Chaoyang was going to write this time was grand, far from comparable to ordinary novels.

Even large works such as "Crossing the Guandong" and "White Deer Plain" may be describing the new writings of Lin Chaoyang.

Such a magnificent work cannot be achieved without any effort or courage.

"I'll post it after the modification?"

Lin Chaoyang pondered and said, "Wait a minute. I will talk about it when I can write it well. Even I don't know when I will finish it. I will post it now, I'm irresponsible."

In the literary world, many writers have tried to write large works. The content of the plan looks very grand, but they can't write with a lot of courage when they really finish writing.

Some people want to tell the world that the first 200,000 or 300,000 words have been written, and various contact magazines and publishers have tried to publish and publish.

Faced with such a situation, magazines and publishing houses are usually very difficult.

For such long-form works, even the author himself cannot guarantee whether the quality of his later creation can be as high as the previous one.

The front is well written, what if the level of the latter part drops sharply?

But writers who can write works on this type of subject are often quite famous, which makes people feel embarrassed.

In contrast, Lin Chaoyang's attitude is undoubtedly much more rigorous and responsible.

Hong Zicheng looked admiring, "It is best to maintain a stable creative state for such a long article. Habitual publication can easily interrupt that tone, affect the quality of the work, and it will not be worth the loss."

"Well--it's not realistic to post it after you finish writing it all. The content of this novel is too long. My plan is to post it one after another when the process is halfway through."

"This depends on your personal creative status."

After half a month, Lin Chaoyang revised the content of the first volume of the new book. He did not rush to continue to create, but instead sent the manuscript to Wang Yongxing, Yan University, and asked him to help correct the axe.

It was only half a month after delivering the manuscript that Lin Chaoyang received a call from Wang Yongxing, saying that he would invite him to talk to his home.

When they arrived at Wang Yongxing's house, the two of them talked for a while. Wang Yongxing smiled and said, "I am old and I look at things too slowly, and I think about it too slowly, so I have made you wait for a long time."

"What you said is that I have caused you."

As he spoke, Wang Yongxing took out his notebook and said, "I don't have a good memory now. I have read this book and wrote some things. Just consider it as my reading notes."

He was humble and Lin Chaoyang took the notebook and looked through it.

""...-Comrade Chaoyang's novel is about to write an encyclopedia at the peak of Chinese feudal society. It has a broad scene and many characters.

The events are rich and the contradictions are full of conflicts. Many characters appear at the same time, and many contradictions develop at the same time."

"The content of the first volume describes the competition between the heroes at the end of the Sui Dynasty, but in fact, the power change of the Li Dynasty was the main line hidden in it, running through the whole process.

The conflict between the Li family and the Sui Dynasty, the conflict between the Li family and various uprising troops, and the conflicts within the Li family were all hustle and bustle, one grew and one fell and one fell.”

"Overall, the first volume of the novel has both strict historical basis and profound ideological insights. It is more realistic and profoundly reflects the power struggle of the new dynasty led by Li Yuan and Li Shimin and his son at the end of the Sui Dynasty.

Comrade Chaoyang put a great effort into the history of the late Sui Dynasty and the early Tang Dynasty, and his internal skills were no less than those of experts and scholars.

I knew all the class contradictions, social conditions, palace life, rules and regulations, customs and cultures, and even the three religions and other principles of society at that time, so I could write such a vast picture of social life in my works.

Wang Yongxing recorded more than a dozen pages of "Reading Notes". If he calculated it carefully, he would have to say at least five or six thousand words.

The view of the novel is explained from various angles, with a rigorous and objective attitude, and there are many praises.

Of course, several suggestions for improvement were also put forward, mainly what is worth pondering between historical materials and novels.

After reading this "Reading Notes", Lin Chaoyang was deeply moved.

After thanking him again and again, he discussed with Wang Yongxing for a while, happily accepted these suggestions, and finally left with satisfaction.

In April, the biennial Zhuangzhongwen Literature Award once again started the review process, and the first meeting of this award was held at the West Courtyard of Xiaoliubukou Hutong.

Since the first edition was held in 1988, the Zhuang Chongwen Literature Award has been around for ten years.

Because of this special year, Lin Chaoyang made an exception and was invited to serve as the honorary chairman of the jury. After the news came out, it attracted many attention from the literary world for the Zhuang Chongwen Literature Award.

Since its ten years of establishment, the Zhuang Chongwen Literature Award has been widely recognized by colleagues and readers in the literary world for its fair, just and open award system.

In terms of overall influence, the Mao Dun Literature Award has even been vaguely suppressed. After all, the Mao Dun Literature Award is too deeply influenced by political factors.

The award cycle has changed from time to time since several sessions, and the Zhuang Chongwen Literature Award has been unstoppable for two years, which has stronger stability.

In this case, Wenhui, as the organizer, has an unshirkable responsibility.

A few years ago, in order to curb the proliferation of domestic literary awards, the Association for Literature cancelled and merged many literary awards.

The most typical one is the National Excellent Short Story Award and the Novella Award, which were merged into the Lu Xun Literature Award.

However, the merged Lu Xun Literature Award did not achieve the expected results. The reason is that the award evaluation system has become a cake-sharing model.

Last year, nine individual awards were set up, including short stories, novellas, reportage, prose, and poetry, with a total of 70 awards.

Awarded by a work/item.

A 70 award-winning piece per work is simply a big deal!

The Lu Xun Literature Award, which has been preparing for nearly ten years, almost lost the possibility of winning the contemporary literature championship after its first edition.

Compared with the Lu Xun Literature Award's greed for being big and greedy for being full, Mao Dun Literature Award has another problem.

Overemphasize the epicity of the work and over-represent the realistic style.

This review style has directly led to the Mao Dun Literature Award in the past few awards. Unfortunately, he missed many works that have been recognized by the literary community and loved by readers, such as Zhang Wei's "Ancient Boat" and Wang Meng's "Activities to Change Human Shape""

At the first review meeting this year, when talking about the competition between the two awards, Lin Chaoyang said frankly:

"The Mao Dun Literature Award is the biological son of the Literature Association. He is deeply influenced by the official and pays more attention to the influence of the selected works on reality. This is determined by the tone of the award itself.

The difference between Zhuang Chongwen Literature Award is that it focuses on the artistic value of narrative text itself and explores the exploration of novels at the spiritual level of human beings.

To put it simply, the Mao Dun Literature Award pays more attention to the impact of literature on society, while the Zhuang Chongwen Literature Award is closer to literature itself. We must give full play to our advantages rather than compete with the Mao Dun Literature Award."

While Lin Chaoyang was busy with the award evaluation work of the new Zhuang Chongwen Literature Award, Tao Yushu, who was far away in the United States, became a flying man in the United States.

Netflix, which has been online for nearly two years, is still developing rapidly, but this does not mean that the company's future is smooth.

In the past year or so, several competitors have emerged in the industry, and with the development trend of the entire DVD industry, they have achieved good development momentum.

But in terms of business model, Netflix still beats its opponents a lot.

According to Netflix's own calculations, the monthly subscription fee for users is US$19.99 and the fixed profit is US$4. This model can be said to be a guaranteed income from drought and flood, providing the company with stable cash flow and development momentum.

In addition to emerging competitors, industry giant Blockbuster has finally begun to pay attention to Netflix, a challenger.

On the second Tuesday in May, Mark Randolph received a strange call and repeatedly confirmed the other party's intentions. After some consideration, he finally called Tao Yushu.

"Acquisition?"

"Yes, the call was Ed Stead, Blockbuster's general counsel."

"What about the specific conditions?"

"He hopes we can communicate in person."

"It sounds very strong!" Tao Yushu pondered in his tone.

Mark Randolph said with a wry smile: "I guess this is part of their negotiations."

In the past two years, taking advantage of the Internet boom in the United States and the birth of DVD standards, Netflix has become a popular fan in the US Internet + film and television industry, with a valuation of US$1.2 billion.

But it is still far from comparable to Blockbuster. Currently, Blockbuster is at its peak. Almost a new store opens every day, and the total number of stores has exceeded 9,000.

The annual revenue scale has approached the $5 billion mark, becoming a household name in the United States.

Therefore, Ed Stead's arrogance was not surprising. After considering it, Tao Yushu decided to meet Ed Stead in person.

At this time, she was preparing for the roadshow for the listing of Asia News Network. Time was tight, so she chose to charter a flight to Dallas, which is the headquarters of Blockbuster.
To be continued...