At the end of June, Pearl Buck and her husband Booker came to Shanghai, and they will meet Lin Zixuan to go to Lushan together.

Lin Zixuan warmly welcomed them in Shanghai. This was the first time they met.

Pearl Buck is 31 years old. According to Chinese standards, she is not pretty. She has a deep face and American straightforwardness. She is the type who likes to communicate.

Her husband Booker is relatively silent and is a famous agronomist.

He taught courses in agricultural technology and farm management at Jinling University, founded the Department of Agricultural Economics of Jinda and served as the head of the department. He is regarded as an expert in China in the United States for publishing books such as "China Farm Economy".

Their personalities can be said to be completely opposite. Pearl Buck is lively and enthusiastic, while Booker is restrained and deep.

In Shanghai, Lin Zixuan fulfilled his friendship as a landlord and took the two to visit various attractions in Shanghai. He also organized a gathering between literati to introduce Pearl Buck to the Shanghai literary world. Most of them were friends he knew.

At this time, Pearl Buck was well-known in the literary world.

Because of Lin Zixuan's recommendation, she published several essays in the American Atlantic Monthly, introducing her life in China and her views on China from the perspective of an American woman.

These articles have caused quite a response in the United States.

This is because of Pearl Buck's American identity and her legendary life.

In the eyes of Americans, it is incredible that Pearl Buck was brought to China since childhood and could live in China for 30 years and still live well to this day.

From this we can see how poor Americans understand China.

They believe that China is a country that is poor and backward, with wars everywhere, diseases and no security guarantee.

From Pearl Buck’s articles, they realized that China was different from what they thought. Although the Chinese people were poor, foreigners in China lived well.

Pearl Buck wrote his memories of Zhenjiang in his essay, allowing Americans to understand the lives and customs of ordinary Chinese people.

Many Americans wrote to her, asking her to continue writing, and were encouraged. Pearl Buck planned to write a novel that records rural life in China.

She and her husband lived in the rural areas of Suzhou, Anhui for three years and had some understanding of the lives of farmers.

However, she has no experience in writing novels, so she wants to discuss it with Lin Zixuan this time.

In China, the Vientiane magazine published by Vientiane Bookstore also published articles on Pearl Buck.

Lin Zixuan opened a column for Pearl Buck, called "China in the eyes of an American."

In the past year, Pearl Buck has published more than a dozen articles one after another, most of which are memories or feelings, and also have opinions on Chinese society.

Lin Zixuan felt that these articles could be published in two years, which may be the material for Pearl Buck to write the novel "The Earth" in the future.

He didn't think he could guide Pearl Buck's writing, he just told her a irrefutable truth.

That is to write stories you want to write deep in your heart, and write words that can move you. Only in this way can the articles you write have emotions and infect readers.

Lin Zixuan has a relatively small social circle and is in contact with people who are closer.

For example, Zhou Shoujuan, editor-in-chief of "Free Talk", Yan Duhe, editor-in-chief of "Happy Forest", Zheng Zhenduo, editor-in-chief of "Novel Monthly", and Pingqianya of Wanxiang Book Company and Shen Zhifang of World Book Company.

The martial arts novelist Xiang Qingran, Ouyang Yuqian and Hong Shen in the drama industry, Dan Yu and Zheng Zhengqiu in the film industry, the big star Yin Mingzhu, the singer Meng Xiaodong, etc.

Some of these people even brought one or two familiar friends to come here, so the gathering was quite lively, almost covering half of the Shanghai literary world.

Only then did Lin Zixuan suddenly realize that his influence was already so great.

According to foreigners, this is called a cultural salon.

This is not the first time that Pearl Buck has participated in such a cultural salon, and there are similar gatherings in Nanjing.

However, such a party is not the same as this salon. It was the first time she intuitively felt Lin Zixuan's position in the Chinese literary world.

The participants in this salon mastered most of the cultural newspapers and magazines in Shanghai, as well as the bosses of publishing houses, celebrities in the entertainment industry, and the most cutting-edge topics in the cultural industry.

There are ideological arguments, cultural collisions, casual chats between friends, and good stories about talented men and beautiful women.

This is the real cultural salon.

Pearl Buck is like a fish in water. She is proficient in Chinese cultural customs and has no barriers to communication with these top Chinese literary figures. She is even very popular because of her identity.

She likes the pleasure of communicating with her kind of people.

There was also a surprising scene in the salon.

Zheng Zhenduo from the Literary Research Association talked with Zhou Shoujuan from the Mandarin Duck Butterfly School.

After taking over "Novel Monthly", Zheng Zhenduo made adjustments. In addition to continuing to promote new literature, he also added the "Collect the Country Ancients" column, so that the magazine would not appear too radical while maintaining the original style of "Novel Monthly".

Of course, the style of the novel that has always been attacked by the Mandarin duck butterfly school will not change.

The two had no conflicts in private. In the Shanghai literary world, it was normal for everyone to bow their heads and talk to each other after meeting.

The reason why people are surprised is that the struggle between the two literary schools is too fierce.

In fact, don’t think that Zhou Shoujuan is an old-school literati. He is less than 30 years old and has a very open mind. He is an enthusiast of movies and likes emerging art forms. He just writes romance novels.

This party was quite successful and spread throughout the Shanghai literary world the next day.

The main reason is that these literati will write some essays when they go back, saying that they meet someone at the party and then publish it.

Lin Zixuan did not expect that this party held because of Pearl Buck caused a lot of response in the Shanghai literary world and was considered by many literati as a high-end literary party.

In Shanghai, similar literary gatherings are not uncommon, but most of them are relatively single.

For example, the gatherings in the South Society are all old-school poets, writers within the Mandarin Duck Butterfly School often have dinner together, and new literary writers often gather in small groups, but they are not such hodgepodge-style gatherings.

Lin Zixuan is involved in a variety of industries, so he invites top figures from different industries to come, which expands the social level of participants and invisibly improves the level of the party.

Therefore, in the Shanghai literary world, many literati are proud to be able to participate in the gatherings held by Lin Zixuan.

This reminded Lin Zixuan of the elite circle in the UK with Virginia Woolf as the core. He might be able to copy similar social circles in Shanghai to provide a platform for communication for the Shanghai literary world.

However, I will talk about these things after he comes back from Lushan vacation.

In early July, they set out from Shanghai and headed towards Mount Lu.
Chapter completed!