"Yang Rui not only teaches classes at Tsinghua University, he also has a temporary office, and the conditions of the temporary office are very good. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Reflecting on his office, Dean Liu said, "It's a little smaller than my office, but it's warm, and the space is not small, with a big window and a small flower bed in front of the door. ”

Dean Liu gestured in Professor Cai's office and said, "Yang Rui has set up a desk, a chair, a bookshelf, and a marching bed, and there is a lot of empty space in the middle of the room, oh, there is a stove in the middle, and there are a few chairs around, and he also roasted beef in the oven, saying that the barbecue is more delicious in the open oven, and the seasonings are all alive, packed in small bottles......"

Under Dean Liu's vivid description, Professor Cai instantly formed a scene of Yang Rui's temporary office in his mind: a small office, but a comfortable office...... It's still an office that can barbecue.

"What about the ion channel laboratory? The conditions of the ion channel laboratory are not bad, isn't Yang Rui working in it?"

"I think maybe it's because Tsinghua's temporary office is quieter. Looks like it's a good place to write. ”

Professor Cai would have liked to say that the ion channel lab is also very quiet, but considering that it has now swelled to nearly 30 people, he can't say so. Professor Cai, who is also the director of the laboratory, knows what it is like when several experimental groups are busy, and if the boss is in the laboratory, people will keep asking how it is.

The work of the laboratory is like this, every detail requires the involvement of the boss, and in many cases, Professor Cai has to operate the microscope himself or pick up a pipette.

It's not impossible to be a hands-off shopkeeper, but the progress of the laboratory is often lagging behind, and if the deputy in the laboratory has the ability to compete with other laboratories alone, or reach the level of the laboratory director, most of them will have to go out independently. In the laboratory, the life goal of the largest number of scientific research Wang and Toutou dogs is not to contribute to the laboratory, the goal of their hard work in the laboratory is to try their best to learn more knowledge and methods, so that they can one day have their own laboratory. Therefore, when the director of the laboratory appears in the laboratory, the scientific research Wang will release the questions accumulated for many days.

At this time, the job of the laboratory director is to answer all kinds of questions, just like giving a salary to scientific research. The person in charge of the laboratory, who does not appear in the laboratory for a long time, is like a contractor who has been in arrears for a long time, which is not only unpopular, but also has moral concerns.

Of course, just because you're in the lab regularly doesn't mean you're going to stay in the lab forever. Professor Cai has his own office outside of the lab, and when he has to do administrative work, he comes here.

"Shall we also find an office for Yang Rui, is there still a room in the building?" Professor Cai asked.

"How could there be. Dean Liu shook his head and said: "The current office can't be lined up, and besides, there are also some misnomers." Tsinghua University gave me a temporary office, and if I used it temporarily, no one could say anything. Besides, Yang Rui does not have a laboratory in Tsinghua University, we have already assigned a laboratory, and if we reassign an office, it will definitely not be appropriate. ”

"It's a nuisance. ”

"Yes...... If other teachers came to me for an office, I would definitely say that I would try my best to overcome it, but Yang Rui did not ask for an office. Dean Liu's expression was very helpless, and it has always been the most troublesome to send things to people.

Professor Cai pondered for a moment, did not continue the topic, and instead asked, "How is Yang Rui writing, how many chapters has he written?"

"More than a dozen chapters, because it's in English, I didn't read the manuscript carefully, you know, I read English articles very slowly, and I'm ......tired," Academician Liu said with a smile.

Professor Cai's eyes narrowed: "The genomics you see is in English?"

"Yes. ”

"Genomics is what he teaches...... He wrote this book based on his own lesson plan, and when he taught it, he must have used Chinese. ”

"Of course, Chinese, of course. Dean Liu replied.

"So, he wrote a lesson plan in Chinese and compiled an English one?" Professor Cai's logic is very clear.

Dean Liu also noticed the problem and hesitated and said, "That's probably the case...... I saw the English version on his desk and didn't think much of it at the time. I also offered to ask our Peking University publishing house to help him publish the lecture notes, and then Yang Rui said that he had contacted the publishing house and wanted to wait for their news first. Dean Liu paused for a moment and said, "I contacted a friend at Tsinghua University, and Yang Rui did not publish in Tsinghua University. ”

"Of course, he won't publish in Tsinghua University, he wants to publish abroad. As a high-level scholar, Professor Cai understands Yang Rui's thoughts very well.

Monographs published in third world countries are not at all cared about by the world's mainstream academic circles.

For example, if a well-known Egyptian scholar publishes a monograph in Arabic, unless it is an ethnological work, there will be no Cambridge or Stanford professor to read it, and there is no condition to read it, so it will naturally disappear from everyone.

Therefore, in a world where English dominates the world, papers must be published in English-language journals and monographs must be published in English-speaking countries in order to receive as much attention as possible. The same applies to German before World War II, Latin from Darwin's time.

The work done in China in the sixties to synthesize bovine insulin was published in Chinese and English, Chinese in Biochemistry and Biophysics Journal, and English in Scientiasinina, the only Western scientific journal in China.

Only two countries in the world published a large number of papers in their Chinese languages after World War II - the Soviet Union and Japan. Needless to say, when the Soviet Union was the pole of the world, after the end of the Soviet Union, the Russian periodicals were also finished. Japan is an alternative type, in the era of Japan's rapid development, in that era when Japanese people can say no, the level of Japanese papers is also very high, so that some scholars in English-speaking countries have to find someone to translate Japanese papers in fields where the Japanese have the upper hand.

It sounds very cool, yes, however, reality does not give in to the spirit, sometimes, people think that reality has succumbed, but soon, reality will be like a bamboo that never bends, quickly bounce back, and hit you hard in the face.

In the 21st century, the Japanese academic community, which cannot keep up with the times, is in a worse recession than the economy. Although there are still many Japanese who publish papers in Japanese and are branded as patriotic by the Chinese, the influence of Japanese journals has become weaker and weaker in the era of Japan's full-field contraction. Japanese scholars in the new era have long begun to play the game of one Japanese and one English, and they are proud of English.

Facts have proved that unless China dominates all fields, just like the United States in its heyday, the empire in its heyday, the reality is that English is still the lingua franca of the earth. Writing essays and monographs in Chinese is like writing Tang poems in Turkmen, and do not expect to be appreciated by He Zhizhang.

However, the difference between writing a book in English and writing a dissertation in English is huge.

English papers are formatted, many Chinese scholars are not proficient in English, and can still write qualified English papers, especially the old-school scholars in the 80s, many of them are not even good enough to chat, but you ask them to write papers, and the predicate clause is extremely proficient, and the standard language comes casually.

After all, the requirement of the paper is to make things clear, except for the two journals "Science" and "Nature", which require a little writing, the other papers are just flat and straightforward.

However, the requirements for writing a book are much more difficult than writing papers for Nature and Science, and the changes between the lines are not necessarily met by ordinary English-speaking students.

Dean Liu was stunned and said, "Publishing abroad, okay?"

"Yang Rui is a celebrity abroad, and the national television network in the United States, just like our news network, has reported on him. Professor Cai breathed a sigh of relief and said: "He has also made PCR and ion channel research, and with such popularity and foundation, there is no obstacle for him to publish his works abroad, and the publisher may help him polish it." ”

Dean Liu didn't think of this, and not only said, "Do you think the content is enough to publish?"

"Publishing a book abroad is not that difficult, and foreigners rarely have a book number. Professor Cai smiled and said, "However, whether it can be sold is another matter." ”

"There should be a school to buy. Dean Liu understood and said, "It's quite risky to say so. ”

Professor Cai nodded. The way foreign universities buy textbooks is similar to but different from that in China. Basically, each school decides which textbook to use, and if it is a school where professors run the school, it is natural that each professor decides which textbook to buy, and some professors will use their own textbooks, but not every professor has a book in every field, so most of the time, the famous works of those famous professors are the highlight of the university textbook.

In some areas that are not very broad, or even some textbooks by certain professors, it will have a monopoly effect.

However, as a relatively niche reading material, even if it becomes a textbook, the sales of academic monographs will not be too large, 600 or 1200 copies can be called a bestseller, if it does not become a textbook, its annual sales are often less than 100 copies, because the price of books is very expensive, and most of the people of the great American Republic do not like to read books, let alone read academic monographs.

Buying less means making less money, and earning less means publishing is worthless.

Dean Liu figured out the relationship and couldn't help but wonder: "Why did Yang Rui always choose such a difficult option." ”

"He's still young, young people are always confident. "Professor Cai can quite understand that if he has the conditions, he also wants to publish a journal abroad.

"Well, can we help?"

"It's okay to contact one or two people, but we can't decide. "It is true that Professor Cai is a member of the Faculty of Sciences, but Chinese academicians can only influence one acre and three points of land in China, and the so-called fourth-order scholars are the same.

As he spoke, Professor Cai's heart became itchy and said, "I just have time tomorrow, I'll go read the book written by Yang Rui." ”

"He'll be at Tsinghua tomorrow. ”

"We'll have lunch tomorrow at noon, ride over and see, I'll take two hours of free time and go to the lab after 3 p.m. Professor Cai made the decision and wrote down the project on the calendar in front of his desk.

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