Five years later, his essay "The Old Man and the Sea" written in 1997 was searched on a foreign Chinese website and cited by two Canadian and American university professors in their paper "The Pipe of Interpretation". The paper, published in the Journal of Huainan Normal University in China in 2007, mentioned that "a Chinese reader named Xu Jingzhou wrote: 'The first time I read 'The Old Man and the Sea'... All that is felt strongly is loneliness... The second time alone "The Old Man and the Sea"... I felt as if I were the old man who had failed in Hemingway's pen... In the end, all I got was the empty skeleton shelf of the big marlin... The third time I read "The Old Man and the Sea"... There's a new layer of experience. Isn't an old man who has done his best in life and pursued and struggled for his ideals a true victor? ’”。 The note at the end of the article notes: "Xu Jingzhou's "Three Readings of the Old Man and the Sea", Pizhou City Daily, March 28, 1997" It was surprising at the time that university professors in two different countries could have noticed a county-level tabloid like Pizhou Bao and would cite an article in this tabloid as a representative view of Chinese readers reading "The Old Man and the Sea"? As the author of the cited article, there is naturally a little less excitement and pride.
But later, when I searched the paper again on the Internet, I found that there were two versions, foreign Chinese websites and journal photocopied editions of the text have my name in the text version, but in the text version of one website, the original text of "a Chinese reader named Xu Jingzhou" was changed to "a domestic reader", obviously, this change is to cover up the fact that the paper was originally published on foreign websites and was aimed at readers around the world, making people think that it was written by Chinese scholars. Come to think of it, this should be the work of self-media washing, right?
Unexpectedly, when I occasionally searched for the humble work "Three Readings of the Old Man and the Sea", there was an annoying scene, and the humble work was actually added at the beginning by a person named "Zhang Hongbin", who only added a sentence at the beginning of the sentence "In my understanding, the books that can be collected should be good books, and", then "good books are often read and often new" and all the following texts, completely copied and published in the "Beijing News", and reprinted by the "Guangming Daily Network" "Guangming Reading" column, and also selected as the reading topic by a middle school language teaching supplemented by the name of this plagiarist! Of course, in addition to being angry, there is also a bit of A-Q pride, because the article can be quoted and plagiarized and published in the big newspaper, indicating that it is valuable. And this kind of thing, I encountered a lot, are not solved, because it is useless to find. For example, shandong's "Dazhong Daily" published an article about the name of The Water Margin that others plagiarized and copied me more than twenty years ago, and went to the editorial office of the two letters to discuss the explanation, but there was no following. There is also a person with the screen name "Shandong Mixed Son", using my "Dazhou" pen name, successively plagiarized and published many essays on my small town old affairs in the "Qilu Evening News", of course, the manuscript fee all belongs to him, and he does not harm the evening newspaper forum, in the name of "Dazhou", I posted my newly written articles on the Internet, reprinted one by one, and presented myself as the author. I reflected on this matter in the forum, but I could only fail to do it, and later the newspaper sent out several of my essays under my real name "Xu Jingzhou", which was a supplement. The "Shandong bastard" sent a message to apologize, saying that he was very poor and that the manuscript fee would not be refunded. Why did you copy so many of my articles? He said that he felt that the article was good, and when he copied it, he felt that he had written it himself. Therefore, I made a statement on that forum, but some netizens said that I was hyping myself, speechless, and had to withdraw from that forum.
In the 1990s, I was keen on paper media submissions, and published hundreds of articles, and I went to dozens of national and provincial newspapers and periodicals such as "People's Daily", "Guangming Daily", "Literature and History Knowledge", "Appreciation of Masterpieces", etc. After a period of writing and publishing addiction, the ecstasy of receiving four or five manuscript notifications in one day is a wonderful memory of a lifetime. But after 2000, although I wrote more, I was satisfied with online publication, lazy to submit articles to the print media, and of course, there were very few articles published. I miss the simple "Wenqing" years of the 1990s, and I have written a lot of proud strokes that have been reprinted in books and periodicals. Moreover, in those ten years, I also used the platform of the city newspaper supplement to make the local literary circle sound and colorful, and it was also the most memorable literary passion of many local literary friends.
Loving reading and writing is a lifetime of happiness.
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