In January 1927, the English translation of this novel was completed in 1984.

Lin Zixuan plans to publish the English version in the United States first to test the reaction of the Western world, and then publish the Chinese version later.

According to his estimates, Germany and Italy may ban the publication of this novel except the Soviet Union. It is hard to say that France and Britain have a self-proclaimed democracy, and many of these countries that claim to be democratic often have an undemocratic side.

Needless to say, the image of Big Brother in 1984 also has the shadow of Hitler.

Personality worship and totalitarian rule are common characteristics of Stalin and Hitler.

In France and Britain, various social trends were rampant, and in 1984 it would definitely be boycotted by many people.

Everything has two sides. You can say that this novel is a classic of anti-totalitarianism, or you can say that this novel has the risk of inciting people to take the path of totalitarianism.

For example, the novel describes a terrifying 1o1 torture room.

After the prisoner is arrested, he thinks in the torture room that the police will torture the prisoner with what the prisoner is most worried about.

For the protagonist in the novel, the most worrying thing is that someone presses his head into a cage full of rats.

Room 1o1 was established to break the prisoner's last psychological defense by allowing the convicted person to betray the closest person by allowing the inmate to suffer what they hate the most.

This method of interrogation is easily imitated and leads to adverse effects in society.

In fact, there are indeed such incidents. It is said that the leader of an evil American sect regards this novel as a classic and promotes the practices in the novel to control the believers in his sect.

This is one of the reasons why it was banned in some countries in 1984.

Relatively speaking, this novel is the most safest to publish in the United States.

Compared with Lin Zixuan's previous novels, 1984 is too dark and obscure. It is not the path of best-selling novels, but can only be spread through word of mouth. This kind of political satirical novel is the favorite of Western literary critics.

Especially the part that alludes to the Soviet Union must have caused a lot of sensation in the American literary world.

Lin Zixuan has a foundation in the American literary world and a reader foundation. With the help of literary critics, he should have good sales. Whether he can become a god depends on the evaluations obtained by the novel in the United States.

The public has a herd mentality.

If a novel receives extremely high praise in the United States, British readers will be curious. If British critics think it is good, they can drive readers in other European countries.

After the novel becomes popular in Europe and the United States, it is Chinese readers' turn to be curious, and publishing the Chinese version will result in twice the result with half the effort.

If the Chinese version of 1984 is published now, it will definitely cause fierce criticism in the country. Lin Zixuan needs to wait.

At the same time, Luxun resigned from Xiamen University and went to Guangzhou, where he served as director of liberal arts and director of academic affairs at Guangdong University.

His work experience at Xiamen University was not pleasant.

Xiamen University was founded by patriotic overseas Chinese Chen Jiageng and was founded in 1921.

There are 7 departments in liberal arts, science, teaching, law, business, medicine, and engineering, with a total of 24 departments, with about 4 students.

Luxun offers courses on Chinese literary history and Chinese novel history at Xiamen University, with 4 classes a week and is also a research professor at the National Academy.

Before coming to Xiamen, he once considered that he should never regard teaching as a lifelong profession, so he regards teaching as a short-term "rest" and accumulates some necessary money for his future life.

He and Xu Guangping agreed to see each other again two years later, but in just three months, Luxun left Xiamen University.

There are many reasons for this.

Xu Guangping's urging in Guangzhou was one reason, and the exclusion and suppression he was received at Xiamen University.

Luxun has a very bad impression of Xiamen University. In his letter to Xu Guangping, he described Xiamen University as "a row of villas placed on the beach of the deserted island."

He and the president of Xiamen University, Lin Wenqing, have been in constant conflict.

Xiamen University is a private university. Unlike Tsinghua University and Peking University, it pays more attention to reality here.

As soon as Luxun arrived at the school, the school authorities asked about their resumes, works, plans, and what grades were available at the end of the year. They hoped to make the school famous quickly and more results.

Xiamen University attaches great importance to investors.

A banker came to Xiamen University and the school authorities were very busy. Luxun despised this trend of circling around the word "money".

Someone took Luxun to take photos with the banker, but he firmly refused.

It is hard to say who is right and who is wrong here, it can only be said that each has different positions.

Private universities offer high salaries to hire high-profile professors in order to achieve results and build a reputation for schools. Private schools do not have the financial support of the Ministry of Education and can only rely on self-raised funds.

When Luxun was in Peking, he taught only part-time and was a civil servant.

Therefore, after coming to Xiamen University, he was extremely uncomfortable with this utilitarian atmosphere. As a civil servant of the Ministry of Education, others asked him to do things, so there was no reason to accompany the banker to take photos and have a meal.

It can be seen from this that Luxun has not changed his identity yet.

He is now at a high salary from Xiamen University, and he is an employee of Xiamen University. If an employee does not listen to the instructions of his leaders, he will naturally be criticized. This is the difference between public universities and private universities.

Even in public universities, professors who often contradict the president may not be able to do it for a long time.

As he said in his letter to Xu Guangping: "I think Beijing is dirty, and even Xiamen. Now I think about it, I can say that I have a delusion. If the big ditch is not clean, will the small ditch be clean?"

In fact, it’s the same there. This is the rule of the workplace. If he doesn’t change his mindset, such things will still arise.

This may be that character determines destiny.

Luxun didn't stay in Guangzhou for long, and came to Shanghai with Xu Guangping a few months later.

At this time, Hu Shi obtained a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University in the United States and was preparing for the country.

He taught at Peking University over the years and was called Dr. Hu, but in fact he did not have a doctorate certificate.

This is because, in 1917, he did not pass the doctoral thesis defense at Columbia University.

His doctoral thesis is called the pre-Qin famous history of history. American scholars cannot understand ancient Chinese culture and have not allowed him to pass it.

At this time, Cai Yuan paid a compensation to Hu Shi and hired him to be a professor at Peking University. Hu Shi didn't care about the paper defense and just wanted to be a professor in the country. In this way, he had been a fake doctor for ten years.

Because his reputation grew stronger and stronger in other countries, no one questioned his degree.

At the beginning of this year, he went to Columbia University and submitted a doctoral thesis on the evolutionary history of ancient Chinese philosophical methods.

American scholars still don’t understand it. They just because Hu Shi was already famous in China and did not make any difficulties, so they awarded him a doctoral certificate.

Hu Shi received his doctorate degree and was preparing for the country, he received a letter from the country telling him that there was war in the country.

He had attacked Sun Zhongshan and supported Duan Qirui before, and was likely to be judged as a counter-revolutionary by the Guangzhou National Government. Many friends persuaded Hu Shi to temporarily refuse the country.

Hu Shi was very worried that he had no country, but stayed in Japan, waiting for news from the country.

Then, he came to Shanghai.

In this way, Luxun, Hu Shi and Lin Zixuan gathered together, and the three masters of new literature finally lived in the same city.

In the next few years, the three of them worked together and struggled because of their different positions and persistences.

It is not for personal gain, but for freedom and revolution, for the country and nation, and for the future path.

This is the most intense confrontation between the Chinese cultural and ideological circles after the May Fourth Movement.

It is precisely because of this that the most magnificent page in the history of modern Chinese literature was written. (To be continued.)

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