George Bernard Shaw was a famous British realist dramatist.

In the early years of the Republic of China, the Western dramatists who had a great influence on Chinese drama were Ibsen and George Bernard Shaw, whose works exposed social realities and were widely welcomed by the audience.

This kind of drama is called a social problem drama.

For example, Ibsen's "A Doll's House" and George Bernard Shaw's "The Profession of Mrs. Warren" have both been staged on the Chinese drama stage, and most of the Chinese social drama has come from this.

Hong Shen, who studied drama at Harvard University in the United States, was one of George Bernard Shaw's followers.

George Bernard Shaw was also a political figure, a prominent British socialist activist and political commentator.

George Bernard Shaw joined the Fabian Society in 1884 and advocated the use of gradual, incremental reforms to change the capitalist system and oppose violent revolution, and he was one of the important leaders of the Fabian Society.

Fabianism is a progressive socialism that advocates class cooperation, social peace, and opposes proletarian revolution and dictatorship.

Although they were all socialists, unlike the violent revolutions of the Soviet Union, they tended to form political parties, gain power through democratic elections, and promote nationalization, and gradually achieve socialism.

This approach is similar to that of the bourgeois reformists in China, but the ultimate goal of Fabianism is socialism.

The Fabian socialists helped form the British Labour Party.

Founded on February 27, 1900, the British Labour Party is one of the ruling parties in the United Kingdom, and alternates with the British Conservative Party, and the traditional theoretical basis of the Labour Party's program is Fabian socialism.

In 1925, Britain was governed by the Conservative Party and the Labour Party was in opposition.

It was the Labour Party that took advantage of the turmoil in China to blame the British Conservative Party for its mistakes in foreign policy, and promoted Lam's speech through the media, and the meeting between Lam and George Bernard Shaw was also motivated by political considerations.

They think it will increase the impact of the matter. Aroused the attention of the British public.

Lin Zixuan didn't know what George Bernard Shaw thought, perhaps the British dramatist had a humanitarian spirit and was quite sympathetic to what happened in China.

On June 5, 1925, George Bernard Shaw, Zetkin and other international figures organized relief societies to help the wave of opposition against imperialism in China after the May Day Massacre.

For those foreigners who have supported and helped China, Lin Zixuan has great respect.

He received an invitation from George Bernard Shaw to visit him at his residence in London. The gift to George Bernard Shaw was a series of new Chinese literature.

He never forgets to promote Chinese culture, which is very conscientious.

This year, George Bernard Shaw was approaching the age of seventy, but he was in good spirits and had a good conversation.

He used to be an orator and made a living from speaking for 12 years.

George Bernard Shaw was very concerned about what was happening in the Far East, including the violent revolution that broke out in the Soviet Union, and he also knew that the Soviet Union was cooperating with some Chinese powers.

He was quite interested in the Soviet Union and planned to visit it. Want to see what a socialist country looks like.

Most of the two talked about such topics, and as for literature, they didn't talk about anything.

Lin Zixuan expressed his gratitude to George Bernard Shaw for supporting China's actions against imperialism, and focused on the great social changes that are emerging in China, the whole nation is awakening, and the resistance will become stronger and stronger in the future.

"So will China follow the path of the Soviet Union?" George Bernard Shaw thought for a moment and asked.

"If all else doesn't work, I think it will." Lin Zixuan replied.

George Bernard Shaw smiled and said nothing. He was not in favour of violent revolution, but he also knew that the specific situation of each country was different.

In the UK. It is possible to bring about social reform by gaining power through democratic elections, but it may not work in other countries, which is a real problem.

"Why do you want to write a novel with a Western setting?" Later, George Bernard Shaw asked with interest.

"Because Western readers don't like to read oriental novels." Lin Zixuan replied, "I only wrote Western-style novels to let Western readers understand me." so that they can accept the oriental novels I wrote. ”

"Interesting way." George Bernard Shaw commented.

The conversation between the two was relatively relaxed, George Bernard Shaw controlled the pace of the conversation very well, and Lin Zixuan spent most of his time answering.

At this moment, someone came up with a telegram to report the good news to George Bernard Shaw.

This telegram came from the Swedish Academy. The Nobel Committee informed George Bernard Shaw that he had won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.

George Bernard Shaw's winning work was his 1923 large-scale historical play Joan of Arc, which he wrote.

In the British literary criticism circles, many critics believe that George Bernard Shaw has passed the glory days of his creation and has come to an end.

His creative glory period was before the First World War, and his plays after that suffered frequent failures.

Joan of Arc is widely regarded as an excellent play, a work of restored standards by George Bernard Shaw.

The Swedish Academy awarded George Bernard Shaw the Nobel Prize for Literature "because of his idealistic and human works, which contain a high degree of poetic beauty in their agitated satire".

Lin Zixuan stood up to congratulate George Bernard Shaw, which is a very high honor in the literary world.

The Norwegian dramatist Ibsen often regretted missing out on the Nobel Prize for Literature.

But George Bernard Shaw smiled wryly and shook his head at Lin Zixuan.

"They must have thought that I would not write good works in the future because I had not written anything during this period, and this award was just a lifebuoy for those who had already passed through the sea of suffering." He said self-deprecatingly.

George Bernard Shaw seems to feel that this is a consolation prize for him, something akin to a lifetime achievement award.

Lin Zixuan had just come into contact with George Bernard Shaw, and he didn't know who he was, so he couldn't tell whether this was his true thoughts.

However, in the days that followed, rumors spread that George Bernard Shaw refused to accept the Nobel Prize for Literature.

This incident caused quite a stir in Britain.

Since the Nobel Prize was first awarded in 1901, it has become an influential award in the world, not only for individuals, but also for the country.

As a result, the British media expressed their opinions on this matter.

Some people think that George Bernard Shaw is pretending to be high-minded, some people think that George Bernard Shaw is indifferent to fame and fortune, and some people persuade George Bernard Shaw that he should not be so stubborn and should give up this idea and go to accept the award.

His relatives and friends also persuaded him, and even the British royal family came forward to mediate, causing a lot of trouble.

Lin Zixuan thought that the Chinese desire for the Nobel Prize in later generations is actually similar in Western society, after all, this is a worldwide honor, and few people can refuse.

In fact, George Bernard Shaw eventually went to Sweden to attend the award ceremony and receive the award certificate.

It's just that after receiving it, he hung the award certificate in the most inconspicuous corner of the house wall.

He used the money he received to establish a cultural foundation to reward and support young writers. (To be continued.) )