The so-called dinner party is to provide a platform for teachers to get to know each other, and the venue is the school auditorium.

The campus of Shanghai University is located in an alley, and the conditions are very simple.

The school building is just an old-fashioned shikumen building, with a total of more than ten houses on two floors, and the school has demolished the partition wall of the two houses side by side upstairs and turned it into a large auditorium, which is also a large classroom, and the other living rooms and wings are classrooms.

Half of the people who came to the dinner were celebrities like Lin Zixuan, who were hired visiting professors, and the other half were faculty members of the school, who were also famous.

For example, Yang Xingfo, a pioneer of management science in China, Ye Chuling, a famous poet of Nanshe, Zhang Naiyan, a doctor of science from the University of Geneva, and Shi Zhen, a doctor of law from the University of Michigan, etc.

In fact, if you look at the trustees of Shanghai University, you can see that both Cai Yuanyuan and Zhang Taiyan are top figures in the education industry, and others are also leaders of this era.

Not to mention that Sun Zhongshan and Chen Duxiu are supporting behind.

Although these people did not come forward, they had a strong appeal, how could a celebrity in Shanghai refuse this offer, which led to such a university with only a hundred students, and dozens of prestigious professors alone.

Such a strong faculty can be said to be the only one in the country.

Lin Zixuan also couldn't refuse the offer, whether he came to give a lecture was secondary, mainly to support the reputation of this school, because this was the result of the first cooperation between the two parties.

In fact, there was a saying later: "Wu has Whampoa, and Wen has Shangda; There is Peking University in the north and Shanghai University in the south. ”

This shows the influence of this university in the future.

At this time, there were only two departments in Shanghai University, one was the Department of Literature and the other was the Department of Fine Arts.

The Department of Literature is divided into the Department of Chinese Literature and the Department of English Literature, the head of the Department of Chinese Literature is called Zhang Junmou, and the head of the Department of English Literature is called Shi Zhen.

In Shanghai, there is no base for new literature, unlike in Beiping, where Peking University is the center of new literature.

The Department of Literature of Shanghai University advocates new literature, and Lin Zixuan, as a representative of new literature, naturally wants to participate in it.

In fact, with his status in the new literature, he can be the head of the Department of Chinese Literature, but he knows that he is two pounds, and it is okay to plagiarize novels, and if he really teaches literature, it is a mistake.

Zhang Junmou is very enthusiastic about Lin Zixuan, and the current Shanghai University is in the initial stage and needs teachers from all aspects.

For example, although the Department of Chinese Literature advocates new literature, the subjects offered are mainly Chinese studies.

Vice Principal Shao Lizi taught the Book of Changes, Chen Wangdao taught grammar and rhetoric, and Ye Chuling taught old-style poetry.

Shanghai is not as good as Beiping, and it is not easy to find professors in new literary fields.

Don't look at the fact that there are so many celebrities, those people can come to give speeches, and there is no time for lectures, mainly to support the scene.

Guo Moruo's group of people from the Creation Society are still running around Japan and Shanghai, and the Literary Research Society represented by Shen Yanbing is fighting fiercely with the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly faction, and only Lin Zixuan is both famous and has nothing to do.

Of course, this is the opinion of the outside world, Lin Zixuan said that he is actually very busy.

The Department of Chinese Literature is not bad, but the head of the Department of English Literature, Shi Zhen, is from a law background, but this person has a background in studying in the United States, and it is not a big problem to manage the Department of English Literature.

Zhang Junmou wanted Lin Zixuan to open a course on new literature, whether it was fiction or poetry, there was no problem, but he didn't talk about traditional literature like "Dream of Red Mansions".

Lin Zixuan gave eight lectures on "Dream of Red Mansions" at Fudan University, which established his status in the red academic circles.

He systematically and comprehensively explained the various factions and research aspects of Red Studies, and many Red Studies researchers pessimistically believed that in the future, as long as they continued to study in the direction indicated by Lin Zixuan, he finished speaking.

This is not to say that "Dream of Red Mansions" does not need to be studied, but that there is no other research direction.

Lin Zixuan is talking about the general direction of the building, and the details still need to be studied uninterruptedly, as more and more literature is discovered, the study of red science will only become more prosperous.

Especially the critics, people in different eras have different interpretations of "Dream of Red Mansions", which is a topic that can never be finished.

Lin Zixuan completely opened the door to red studies, and he didn't care about the rest of the matter.

He compiled his lecture notes at Fudan University into a book entitled "A Preliminary Study of the Dream of the Red Chamber", and after it was published, he stopped mentioning the matter of "The Dream of the Red Chamber", in fact, he had nothing to say.

Faced with Zhang Junmou's warm invitation, Lin Zixuan had no choice but to agree.

He needed to think carefully about what he was going to say.

Unlike Fudan University, the students of Shanghai University are more progressive, and in order to bring down the former president Wang Litang, they have traveled everywhere, contacted all parties, and even went to prison for this, which has attracted the attention of all walks of life.

Teaching traditional culture to these students certainly didn't interest them, so Lin Zixuan decided to open a writing course for new literature.

This writing course is not just about writing novels, but also about writing poetry, writing plays, writing movie scripts, and more.

There is a saying that if you read a book a hundred times, you will see its righteousness.

Lin Zixuan has copied so many novels and read a lot of books, so he still has a lot of experience in how to write.

With the insights of later generations, he may not be profound enough in this regard, but he is broad enough, mainly to inspire students' habits of thinking, so that they are not limited by this era.

At the same time, it is also to cultivate screenwriting talents for the film industry.

Nowadays, very few people in China can write movie scripts, and even in the United States, formal movie scripts are rare, and they all start shooting with a rough outline, and solve problems when they encounter them.

This is a waste of time, money, and the quality of the film.

In later generations, a typical movie script was about 120 pages long, or two hours long, and whether your script was full of dialogue, full description, or both, it could be counted as one page per minute.

One page in a movie script equals one minute of screen time.

Lin Zixuan can't write such a standard movie script, but the script he wrote has at least a complete story and dialogue, including what kind of shots are used.

This is actually similar to a drama script, Hong Shen was greatly inspired after reading it, and felt that future film shooting needs a more detailed script, and the film script should be written as a kind of literary text.

is worthy of being a professional, Lin Zixuan admires Hong Shen very much for people who can theorize anything.

Lecturing should be done by a guy with rich theoretical knowledge like Hong Shen, not a half-baked guy like him.

Spit and complain, Lin Zixuan still has to prepare for class seriously.

The students who come out of this school may have great prospects in the future, and no one knows what will happen in the future.