Chapter 867 "My Twenty Years of Literature"
"Then Chairman Fang doesn't agree to our conditions, why don't we change him? Fang Minghua is not the only famous writer in the literary world." Xiao Liu came up with another idea.
"There are indeed many famous writers in the domestic literary world, but who is as famous and popular as Fang Minghua? What's more important is that his lectures are popular, explain the profound things in simple terms, and have witty remarks. Otherwise, we can just go to the Chinese Department of Yanda and find a professor, and all of them They are full of knowledge, but people don’t like to listen to the content. After all, they are not facing Chinese students but ordinary people!”
"This" Xiao Liu was speechless.
"What if, what if Chairman Fang doesn't agree to our conditions?" Xiao Liu asked another question.
"Then we will modify the conditions and no longer insist on owning the copyright of his book." Xie Ruguang sighed and said, "Of course, I will also call the leaders in Taili to report this matter."
Xiao Liu didn't say anything after hearing this, and was secretly wondering.
"Hundred Forum" has been broadcast for more than a year and has aired for more than 60 episodes. This is the first time that a person's contract has been revised!
Besides, after the two left, Fang Minghua also returned to his home.
He doesn't care about this matter, it's better if the other party disagrees with one less thing.
However, he didn't expect to receive a call from Xie Ruguang the next morning shortly after he got to work, agreeing to his request and no longer requiring a part of the publishing copyright in the contract.
"Chairman Fang, I'm in your unit now. Could you please come over and sign the contract." Jie Ruguang said with a smile on the other end of the phone.
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"Okay then." Fang Minghua agreed.
Went to the Writers Association again and met Xie Ruguang. After the two parties signed the contract, Fang Minghua went home and started to prepare.
Since you agreed, you must prepare well.
I traveled back in time to this era, which happened to be the early 1980s: the beginning of the golden age of literature. In the blink of an eye, more than 20 years have passed.
Over the past twenty years, domestic literature has developed rapidly, going through one stage of development after another, bursting out with unprecedented passion.
Scar literature, educated youth literature, root-seeking literature, avant-garde literature, new realistic novels, hazy poetry, college student poetry school, and third-generation poets
I was fortunate to participate in it, and got to know a lot of influential figures in the literary world of this era: Wang Meng, Chen Zhongshi, Lu Yao, Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua, Mo Yan, Wang Anyi, etc.
Or they call each other brothers, or friends, and some even call themselves teachers. There are so many things worth writing about.
And this era is coming to an end, so it’s worth recalling.
Let’s start with coming to this era, dealing with literature for the first time, and using poetry to persuade the young Western Polytechnic University student who has now become his brother-in-law Liu Jianjun.
"It was a very accidental event that I entered the literary world. I had just turned 20 that year. I was a janitor at Yanhe magazine shortly after I returned to the city as an educated youth."
"One day, I met a student who claimed to be from Western Polytechnic University and asked to see our editor with a poem he had written."
Fang Minghua narrates all the stories related to literature that he has experienced.
The first time I wrote the novel "Into the Smoke", the first time I received the manuscript fee to treat Lu Yao and others to eat mutton dip, and participated in the contemporary poetry essay competition
In each interesting little story, Fang Minghua also writes about the collision and changes of various literary schools in the literary world.
This is how Fang Minghua spent this summer.
Daughter Fang Rui did not return to China. She called and said that she was going to Los Angeles to play with Liu Yifei during the holidays. They stayed at the Amber Mountain Manor for a few days. The two girls, still led by Liu Xiaoli, drove along California Highway 1, from the vast mountains and endless scenery. Drive along the coastline and watch the romantic and healing orange sunset along the way.
He also sent a selfie of the two of them, pouting and extending scissor hands, looking youthful and cute.
His son Fang Le joined the National Mathematical Olympiad training team and represented the country in the Mathematical Olympiad competition in Glasgow, England. After being forced by my mother, Song Tangtang, I posted a photo of myself in Glasgow, where I was working on a question, and my desk was piled with test papers and materials.
Song Tangtang is very busy with work at the company, and often leaves early and comes home late. Now, in addition to the nanny doing housework, Fang Minghua is the only one at home, who happens to be writing quietly.
Song Tangtang took a look at what Fang Minghua wrote.
"Minghua, I feel like you are writing an autobiography."
"Almost, it's an autobiography of his literary career," Fang Minghua said with a smile.
In early September, Fang Minghua sent the three speeches he had written to the program team of CCTV's "Hundred Lectures" via email for review. Soon in late September, Fang Minghua received a call from Xie Ruguang, asking him to go to Yan'an. Beijing CCTV building for recording and broadcasting.
Fang Minghua naturally arrived as scheduled. He flew to Yanjing and checked into a hotel on Fuxing Road.
In this era, the "big pants" had not yet been repaired, and the CCTV headquarters was still located on Fuxing Road, next to CCTV Studio No. 1. This old building has a significant sense of history, and its iconic CCTV butterfly is very conspicuous.
After Fang Minghua settled in, he contacted Xie Ruguang and rushed to the CCTV building to enter the studio to record the program.
The entire recording process went smoothly, but it still took three full days to complete the three episodes.
After the work was completed, Xie Xueguang invited Fang Minghua to have dinner, but he politely declined.
He was tired of drinking and all that.
After leaving the CCTV building and watching the lights on the street come on, Fang Minghua found a small restaurant nearby to fill his stomach with a bowl of noodles with soybean paste, and then returned to the hotel where he was staying.
While the noodles were delicious, his cell phone rang suddenly. He opened it and saw that it was Su Bin, the boss of Shengshi Books, so he picked it up.
The two chatted for a while, and Su Bin got straight to the point: "Minghua, I heard that you are planning to appear on the "Hundred Schools of Forum" column to talk about modern Chinese literature?"
Fang Minghua was surprised when he heard that, except for a limited number of people, very few people knew about this matter. The program had just been recorded and had not yet started to be broadcast.
"How do you know? Did you listen to what my wife said?" Fang Minghua asked.
"Haha, Mr. Song didn't say it. It was a friend of mine from CCTV who listened to your lecture in the studio the day before yesterday and found it very interesting - I have never heard anyone talk about modern literature in this way. Now he mentioned it when he was having dinner with me. So I called you to ask.”
"Are you in Yanjing?"
"Yes, now Yanjing, why don't we come over for dinner?" Su Bin greeted warmly.
"No, I just want to eat something and go back to the hotel to rest." Fang Minghua declined.
"Okay, Minghua, the reason I'm calling you is to ask you to sort out the manuscript and publish it. Twenty Years of Literature is a good idea. I think it's time to summarize."
"Yes. It's time to summarize." Fang Minghua also replied and agreed happily.
"Okay, I'll go back and modify it."
"Okay. I'm waiting for your news."
(End of chapter)