Subtitle of this chapter: There are so many people, things, people, and people in the cultural circle of the Republic of China!

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"Ding!"

"Bang la la......" This is the sound that the elevator attendant makes when he opens the hinged door.

"Sir, the rooftop restaurant has arrived."

"Thank you."

At the same moment that our Master Yuan was dragged into the elevator by his CoCo. In an elevator on the other side of the world, out of an elevator came a long-shirted guest with a three-seven development type and a polite manner.

In the forties of the nineteenth century, the first two Western-style hotels after the opening of Shanghai were the Central Hotel, the predecessor of Huizhong Hotel, and the other was called Licha Hotel (now Pujiang Hotel).

The Central Hotel was later acquired by Huizhong & Co., so it was renamed Huizhong Hotel, and in 1906 it was rebuilt from the original three-storey British building to a six-storey "mansion" that is still intact a hundred years later.

This "mansion" is really not ironic, because the Huizhong Hotel was the tallest and only building in Shanghai with an elevator at that time. Later, it was the south building of the famous Peace Hotel. Construction of the North Building did not begin until 1929.

The place where the cheongsam guest is located is the restaurant on the roof of the Huizhong Hotel. (Author's note: A few days ago, Murong went there on purpose, but now it has been changed to an open-air bar.) That's right, I'm going to take the time to visit all the places where Master Yuan is going. ）

As soon as he stepped out of the elevator, a waiter greeted him, asked him why, and then led him into the restaurant.

A middle-aged man with eyes who was originally sitting stood up and said in surprise, "Brother Xuefan, why are you here alone?" ”

This "Xuefan" is named Chen Wangdao, he was born in 1891, and his hometown is the "small commodity market" in Zhejiang.

Although he was not well-known in later generations, he was a member of the first Marxist group and the earliest founder of the Communist Youth League, and the first Chinese translation of the Communist Manifesto came from this jun. However, instead of attending the First National Congress this year, he quit the Communist Party and later became vice chairman of the Democratic League.

At this time, he was the editor-in-chief of the Shanghai branch of New Youth. Chen Zhongfu went to Guangzhou at the end of 1921 and handed over the magazine to him.

Chen Wangdao smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Dongsun, isn't it just me?" ”

Zhang Dongsun is known as Wantian, a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang. This gentleman is very famous, and he doesn't need to be introduced, anyway, he will be the secretary general of the Democratic League in the future.

Both of them are not only from Zhejiang, but they also studied in Japan, but Zhang Dongsun is from Imperial University, and Chen Wangdao is from Waseda University. More crucially, they all participated in the Marxist research group organized by Chen Zhongfu.

Zhang Dongsun sneered and said, "It seems that Yongxi and Hanjun are still so dead-eyed." ”

Well, Yongxi and Han Jun are both surnamed Li, and the former's single name is Da, a native of Lingling, Hunan. The latter is also a native of Qianjiang, Hubei. The two of them not only work for the "New Youth Book Club", but also are members of that group, and they are ......

Anyway, as soon as our Master Yuan saw these two, he would definitely turn around and leave, without even waving his hand.

I only heard Lao Zhang shake his head and say contemptuously: "It's just that there are differences of opinion, Zhang wanted to talk to them face-to-face." Since you won't come, forget it. Brother Xuefan, please sit down......"

If you want to talk about madness, Zhang Dongsun can indeed be regarded as the number one.

So why do they disagree? This involved a major event in the cultural world of Seris at the time, and that was Russell...... By the way, "Frotel" visited China.

In 1919, after Liang Qichao returned from a visit to Europe, he founded the New Society with Zhang Junmai (Xu Zhimo's brother-in-law), Zhang Yuanji (the owner of the Commercial Press), Zhang Dongsun, Jiang Baili and others, with the purpose of seeking a fundamental transformation of academic thought as the foundation for the future of New China.

The magazine published by the New Society was called "Liberation and Transformation", which was later shortened to "Transformation". Later generations called these Enlightenment intellectuals centered on Liang Qichao the "Transformation" school...... It's a good name with a lot of foresight.

In 1920, they set up a lecture club to invite world-renowned scholars to China to spread the latest knowledge, and Russell was invited by them.

Coincidentally, Hu Shih, Tao Xingzhi, and Jiang Menglin's mentor, John Deey (1859-1952), were also in China at this time. The Lecture Society covered part of the cost of Dewey's visit to China.

Russell went to Soviet Russia in May 1920 and felt a little different from the socialist country he imagined. So I returned to the UK in July, and as soon as I arrived in London, I received an invitation from China. He set off immediately and arrived in Shanghai in October.

After giving several lectures in Shanghai, on October 26-27, Russell was invited to give a lecture on "Bolzaviks and World Politics" at the Changsha Celebrity Academic Lecture Conference, mainly introducing Bolshevism, which was popular in the world at that time.

Because Blowing Si listened, the descendants of the Heavenly Demon were in the audience.

At this time, Russell had some doubts and reflections on socialism because of the experience of Soviet Russia, and his journey from Shanghai to Changsha made him see the backwardness of Seris. Therefore, the point of view in his speech is that China should first engage in industry, and then engage in socialism.

I have to say that the descendant of the heavenly demon is the descendant of the heavenly demon after all, and his evaluation of this is "it makes sense in theory, but it can't be done in reality". It's a pity that his words didn't have much weight at this time, just a scholar in Xiangjiang.

Zhang Dongsun, who accompanied Russell to Changsha, immediately wrote an article entitled "Another Lesson Learned from Traveling in the Mainland". The article argues that "China's only disease is poverty, and China is really poor to the extreme," and that the only way to change China's situation is to "develop industry" and that "in a word, it is to increase prosperity," and criticized socialist propaganda as "empty talk."

As soon as this article was published, Er Li, Chen Wangdao, Shao Lizi and others posted articles on "New Youth" to refute it, and finally Chen Zhongfu also joined in, and a controversy broke out. It was only in April of this year that it stopped a little.

The two sat down, ordered food, and chatted a little. Zhang Dongsun opened his mouth and asked, "Brother Xuefan, have you brought Mr. Hongji's translation?" ”

Chen Wangdao nodded, took out two manuscripts from his leather bag and said, "One "My Antonia" and one "Sister Carrie" are both works by well-known authors in Citigroup. ”

The two of them met not only to eat and chat, but also to get Yuan Yanqian's manuscript.

At this time, Zhang Dongsun was not only the editor-in-chief of Shanghai's "Shishi Xinbao" and "Transformation" magazines, but also the director of the University Department of China Public School in Shanghai, and one of the leaders of the Gongxue Society.

This common society, like the lecture club, is a sub-group of the new society. The main purpose of the Gongxue Society is to translate Western books, and the Commercial Press has printed a set of huge volumes of "Gongxue Series" for them.

On the other hand, "New Youth" was not only banned, but also the financial situation was not very good at this time, and Chen Zhongfu wanted to start a new business in Guangzhou. Therefore, the editor-in-chief of the Chen Dynasty received Yuan Yanqian's translation and had no way to dispose of it.

However, he was still very responsible, and felt that the quality of the manuscript was very good, and it was a pity to leave it like this, so he voted for Zhang Dongsun's "Transformation" instead of Master Yuan.

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It seems that when he wrote about Seris, Murong had to "streamline" it, otherwise he would have just had a chapter on the relationship between someone and someone casually.