Chapter 120 The Responsibilities of China’s Top Academics (23)
Scholars naturally have the arrogance of "being able to defeat the powerful and make me unhappy".
Fabio felt resentful towards Chen Dayue's behavior.
In the letter, he tried his best to express his emotions in the most expressive language to express his heartache to Chen Dayue.
When Chen Dayue opened his mailbox with great expectations, preparing to receive Fabio's "no problem" email, he instead received a questioning letter from Fabio that had no skills and was full of emotions.
Chen Dayue only had question marks on his head.
I didn’t say anything, why did Fabio already have so many things in mind?
Chen Dayue frowned in the office and looked at Fabio's reply to him.
This reply is full of emotions without any objective skills.
"What happened to Fabio?"
Chen Dayue was very dissatisfied.
When I met Fabio at that time, I did not see that Fabio had such a prejudice against the situation in China.
In fact, people of Chen Dayue's generation often encountered discrimination and xenophobia when they studied abroad.
In mainstream academic circles, the attitude towards Chinese people, especially Chinese scholars, is very clear.
It's easy to win awards. If you join the Western academic circle, you can easily win awards for any achievements. This will better demonstrate the correctness of the Western academic circle.
Although science knows no borders, scientists do.
The status of Chinese people in academia is constantly changing along with China's international status and national power.
Maybe someone can find out.
Since entering the 21st century, in the first decade of the 21st century, it has been extremely difficult for domestic scholars to gain recognition from the international academic circle.
Even if scholars produce results, it is still difficult to win international awards.
This makes academic achievements very rare.
This also leads to a large number of top students eventually choosing to go out after embarking on the academic path.
A few years ago.
There are not many people who express admiration for the full moon.
The living standards in developed countries and the West's control of the academic circle will make some people choose to stay.
A vicious cycle thus occurs.
However, scholars abroad do not mean that there are no patriots.
Just like Li and Yang, they finally chose to return to China.
But among them, there are many disputes about right and wrong.
However, this is also limited to 2009.
In a few years, the situation will ease significantly.
Especially from 2012 to 2018, China's national power increased rapidly and the international situation was special.
The improvement of international status can be seen not only in diplomacy but also in various world awards.
From 2012 to 2018, the number of papers published by Chinese scholars in international award-winning and top journals increased exponentially.
At this time in 2009.
Being able to publish an SCI paper is a key support for professional title selection even for an ordinary professor.
But after ten or more years, SCI papers will even become a plaything for undergraduates in China.
I want to break the pride and prejudice of Western academia.
There are only two routes.
Either they use their absolute academic strength to become a pillar that they cannot avoid. All those who study this subject must bow down to this scholar. Naturally, no one dares to use those things to make trouble.
Or use absolute firepower.
No matter which option it is.
It all takes time.
But fortunately, although Fabio also showed obvious bias, Chen Dayue was not a vegetarian.
He immediately wrote another letter. This time he didn't make any false statements and directly bombarded his emotions with his emotions.
"Fabio, I no longer respect you as dear, because of your prejudice and distrust of me, we will no longer be friends in the future. I am angry at your arrogance and prejudice!"
Chen Dayue didn't really want to fight with Fabio.
It's just that for Europeans and Americans, sometimes don't hide it. If you are unhappy, just vent it out. Anyway, your academic status in the world does not need the support of one or two scholars.
So he can express his emotions as much as he wants.
"I think you must be reading those shitty media reports every day. You have never been to China. How can you make conclusions about a country that you have no empirical evidence on, just relying on the rhetoric of those stupid candidates?"
"You don't have any trust in me either. Do you think I got my position as the head of the Department of Probability and Statistics at the School of Mathematical Sciences at Beijing University by trying to please me?"
"We have known each other for so many years, and I have never slandered your country, but you felt jealous because I discovered a real genius and pointed the finger at my country. You don't believe that such a genius can appear in my country. , you don’t even want to ask me a few more questions to get confirmation from me! You must have been eating shit every day at Humboldt University, turning the brains in your head into shit, shit, shit shit!”
"You are not worthy of being a respected scholar. You are now an upright scholar who values discrimination and upright mind."
"You are a parallel importer, a coward, a loser who only bows to the Gallic chicken that surrenders every day and the furry bear that hits you on the head with a mallet!"
Chen Dayue's vocabulary for swearing in English is relatively lacking.
But throughout the entire letter, there is a high amount of "shit" in it.
And some insults without swear words are more offensive than swear words.
As a civilized scholar who always shows his gentle side to others, it is rare for Chen Dayue to have such an emotional side.
After receiving this letter from Chen Dayue, Fabio's face looked as ugly as if he had eaten shit. He looked down at his dinner.
The beef roll wrapped in pickles, onions, and bacon is simmered. The color and appearance are really similar to the Königsberg meatballs made from ground beef and paired with a rich sauce made with capers and lemon. The thick sauce does indeed look like.
The last soft broth stewed with pork, potatoes, and sauerkraut looks more like
"vomit"
"Scheie!"
Fabio found a tissue and wiped his mouth. He had no appetite.
He cursed secretly, but calmed down again. He opened the email sent to him by Chen Dayue on his mobile phone again, and read his full-bodied letter carefully from beginning to end, with an uncertain expression on his face. of.
"Scheie"
Fabio cursed again.
But this sentence is scolding myself.
What allowed Chen to greet him with such a tone and anger was indeed a problem of his attitude.
Fabio is not an introspective person.
Quite the opposite.
He feels that he is the best at reflecting and admitting his mistakes.
However, what Chen said seemed to make sense.
In recent years, I have been attending meetings of those big-nosed idiots in Great Britain who look at people through their nostrils.
Although I don’t really like to come into contact with things that Masashi tends to do.
But it seems that unconsciously, thinking has been penetrated.
Fabio felt that he did not have a complete understanding and concept of what kind of place China was.
But when he was studying, he only knew that there was a magical academic desert there.
China has not produced any very influential results in theoretical academic circles, but geniuses from China are showing their talents all over the world.
Just like the Chen Dayue he knew.
The expression on Fabio's face changed a lot, and finally turned into a breath of turbid air and spit it out fiercely.
He felt that he was not pure anymore.
Dirty.
It felt like being slapped in the face by those damn Gallic chickens with their roots.
"Scheie."
Fabio quickly returned home.
This time, he did not choose to reply to Chen Dayue by email, but chose to make an expensive international phone call.
"Who?"
The sleepy Chen Dayue was awakened by Fabio's life-threatening serial calls. He didn't even look at the phone number, rubbed his eyes and picked up the phone directly.
Who is a nice person who calls someone in the middle of the night?
"Chen, sorry"
Chen Dayue listened to the richly accented English on the phone and looked at the phone number with a frown.
Very strange.
Academics like them usually communicate by email. Although good friends will keep each other's phone numbers, under normal circumstances, they may not call once for many years.
After Chen Dayue listened to the other person's crazy confession for a while, he finally understood that it was Fabio who called him.
"Fabio, do you know what time it is?"
Chen Dayue finally responded to the repentant Fabio. Fabio was so confused that he almost cried because of his confession.
"Isn't it nine o'clock in the evening?"
"That's Bolin time! I'm in the capital, and it's three o'clock in the morning!"
Chen Dayue complained speechlessly.
"But because of your sincere apology, I am willing to give you a chance tomorrow to talk about my genius student Xu Qingshan, and you need to make some compensation to my precious student, you understand. "
This is Chen Dayue's purpose.
Arguing without purpose and end goal is pointless.
Chen Dayue's emotional venting was ultimately to get resources from Fabio.
Of course, if Fabio turns against him, Chen Dayue has nothing to lose. For him, it can be regarded as screening out a potential enemy.
When Chen Dayue became a member of the Probability and Statistics Department of the School of Mathematics at Peking University, he firmly believed in returning to China after completing his studies.
Whether he asked Zhang Fuxi to come back to teach as a visiting scholar, or pushed Ding Jian to study for a Ph.D., he strongly wanted Ding Jian to return to the Department of Mathematics of Peking University as a teacher.
Chen Dayue is indeed dedicated to building the Department of Probability and Statistics at Beijing University of Science and Technology.
He most often said when chatting privately with his protégés:
“We go abroad to return home in a better way.”
“Bringing the cutting edge back until we are the cutting edge.”
"This is our responsibility as the top academic beings in China."
“If we don’t do it, who else should take on this responsibility?”
He is a true scholar.
He has always adhered to his bottom line and responsibilities, and loved his motherland.
At present, Ding Jian has received wide international recognition and won many domestic and foreign heavyweight awards such as the Sloan Research Award, the Davidson Award, the Low Probability Award, the Mathematics Gold Medal of the 9th World Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, and the Scientific Exploration Award. , has been invited to give a 45-minute report at the 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians and a 1-hour report at the 2024 International Conference on Mathematical Physics. Ding Jian, a tenured associate professor at the University of Chicago and a tenured associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, has returned to China to serve as a chair professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Peking University.
(End of this chapter)