Lin Zixuan also appeared on the ship to Nanjing, and he was persuaded by Xu Zhimo to come.

From the beginning of Tagore's speeches and activities in Shanghai, a group of people represented by Chen Duxiu launched fierce attacks, even personal attacks.

On April 18, Chen Duxiu published an article entitled "Tagore and Oriental Culture".

Because of Tagore's concept of Asian cultural revival, Chen Duxiu pointed out that Tagore "was a person who rejected Western culture and admired Eastern culture to the extreme."

Tagore's vigorous advocacy of the revival of Oriental ideas and Asian culture is nothing more than an attempt to turn back the clock of history and rewind China to the time of Confucius.

He criticized sharply: "Please don't let go of the rumors to mess with my ideological circles!" Thank you, Tagore, there are so many shemales in China! ”

This is the famous "shemale" incident.

Chen Duxiu has a great influence among young people.

Although he did not make much achievements in the field of new literature, he became the enlightener of new culture together with Hu Shi, and put forward the idea of learning Western democracy and science.

He was also one of the leaders of the new culture, and he was quite famous in China's intellectual circles, and his appeal among young people was no worse than that of Hu Shi and Lu Xun, and his views could easily influence the attitude of young people towards Tagore.

Chen Duxiu's repeated fierce criticism put great pressure on the lecture society headed by Liang Qichao, and at this time Hu Shi and Lu Xun remained silent and did not express their opinions publicly.

The Chinese cultural scene is in a very strange state.

With Xu Zhimo's current status in the literary world, he can't compete with Chen Duxiu's old qualifications, so he pulled Lin Zixuan to take charge.

He knew that Lin Zixuan and Tagore had not negotiated and had differences on some ideas. He doesn't need Lin Zixuan to make statements in support of Tagore, as long as he expresses his attitude of not opposing Tagore.

And. This is a good time for Lin Zixuan to go to Peking to meet the writers of the northern literary world.

The conversation between Lin Zixuan and Tagore was not pleasant, this is the difference in philosophy between the two sides. He does not deny Tagore's literary achievements, after all, Tagore represents Indian culture.

He also needed to go to the north to meet with Pearl Race in Nanjing and Lu Xun in Beiping.

The purpose is to publish a new literary series in the United States.

He is going to hand over "Border City" to Pearl Sai for translation, and he wants to exchange the background and creative ideas of the novel "Border City" with Pearl Sai, so that the translator will not mistake the connotation that the author wants to express.

Of course, he found out his understanding of "Border City" from the materials of later generations.

Lin Zixuan once wrote to ask Lu Xun's opinion, whether Lu Xun found someone to translate the novel collection "The Scream", or handed it over to Pearl Sai for translation together.

Lu Xun expressed doubts about whether an American woman could understand the meaning of his novel. Even if this American woman has lived in China for 30 years, it cannot be said that she understands Chinese culture.

He thought it would be better to find a Chinese translator, after all, Chinese people understand Chinese culture better.

Lin Zixuan didn't force this, he just needed to communicate with the translator Lu Xun found for a good time.

and Yu Dafu's "Sinking", don't worry about Lin Zixuan.

At this time, Yu Dafu was teaching at Peking University, relatively leisurely, he was proficient in five Chinese, and he could translate his own novels.

As for Bingxin, she is studying English literature at Wellesley Women's College in Boston, USA. This school is also the school that the three Song sisters attended, and it is a school founded by a Christian church.

Her reply to Lin Zixuan was also her own translation of the novel collection "Superman".

This is not a small matter for China's new literature, and at present, only Lin Zixuan is slightly famous abroad. If you want foreign readers to understand Chinese literature, you must come up with high-level works.

Of course, there are issues of royalties and translation fees involved. After all, writers also have to live.

Lin Zixuan understands the principle of the supremacy of the interests of American publishing houses, and even he does not get much preferential treatment. What's more, other Chinese writers can only try their best to fight for it. It's really not good, it's better to be subsidized by Vientiane Bookstore.

This is the loss of money to make money.

In this regard, he needs to explain clearly to Lu Xun and others face-to-face, sign the contract, don't get to the end, these people still think that Lin Zixuan has made a lot of money from it, and deduct their royalties, then it will be boring.

It's not that there are people like that in this society, sometimes good intentions are blamed.

So, Lin Zixuan and Xu Zhimo went north together, and the first stop was Nanjing.

He knew that he meant a bit of a platform for Tagore, just like later stars invited other stars to cheer for their concerts, but he still had this responsibility, at least he couldn't be rude.

On April 20, Tagore arrived in Nanjing.

Nanjing was originally just a city that Tagore passed through, but Guo Bingwen, the president of Nanjing National Southeast University, did not want to miss this opportunity and strongly invited Tagore to give a lecture at Southeast University.

Guo Bingwen and people from Nanjing's cultural circles greeted him at the pier, and then drove to Southeast University.

They first accompanied Tagore on a tour of scenic spots such as the Ming Tomb and Mochou Lake, and then had dinner at the Mei'an of Southeast University.

When they were eating, the front window was crowded with male and female students.

After eating, Tagore walked slowly to a lonely pavilion and sat silently for about half an hour, and then slowly stepped down the steps of the pavilion, walked to the shade of the trees, and communicated cordially with the university students in English.

Lin Zixuan did not accompany him all the time, he went to Jinling University to talk to Pearl Race.

Pearl Race was very surprised that "The Catcher in the Rye" sold well in the United States, and she received many letters from American readers, many American readers and critics thought that it was a novel co-written by Lin Zixuan and Pearl Sai.

Or, they are willing to believe the claim.

In this regard, Pearl Sai said that he was sorry, Lin Zixuan didn't have anything, and translation was also a kind of creation, as long as the copyright of this novel belonged to him.

He handed over the novel "Border City" and two drama scripts to Pearl Sai for translation.

Predictably, the novels would not sell well in the United States, so he paid Pearl a higher translation without royalties.

For money, Lin Zixuan has always been more generous, provided that everyone cooperates happily.

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Tagore, dressed in the national costume of India, appeared in the gymnasium of Southeast University.

Six or seven thousand Chinese and foreign people gathered in the gymnasium, and some peasants and workers from outside the school also came.

Although most of these people could not understand English, they flocked to see the legendary great poet.

President Guo Bingwen introduced the audience and gave Tagore high praise, and emphasized that "the doctrine published by Tagore is enough to expound the spirit of oriental culture and has made great contributions to the communication between China, India and the world."

Tagore spoke from the pulpit for almost an hour, and when he spoke of excitement, he clasped his right hand and placed it on his chest.

The content of his lecture is similar to that in Shanghai, and the theme is to promote oriental culture and promote the revival of Asian culture.

However, at the end of the speech, some young people came in and distributed leaflets that severely criticized Tagore and even threatened to send him back to his country as soon as possible. (To be continued.) )