October 8, 1923, Shanghai Shiliupu Wharf.

A passenger ship from Japan sailed into the docks, and out of it came scarred Chinese workers, Chinese who had survived Japan's earthquake.

These Chinese workers walked up to the wharf and couldn't help but cry bitterly, which made the Wenzhou compatriots who welcomed them on the wharf stunned.

As a result, the news that Japan took the opportunity to kill Chinese workers during the earthquake was made public, and public opinion was in an uproar.

Thinking about the situation when people from all walks of life in Shanghai enthusiastically raised funds for Japan, and thinking about the sensational reports of the news media at that time, this slap hit the Chinese in the face fiercely.

On October 18, Zhang Yuanjie, the chargé d'affaires of the People's Republic of China in Japan, came to Shanghai and brought a Japanese relief delegation to thank China for its donation to Japan.

When a reporter from Shanghai questioned the Japanese representative about the murder of the Chinese worker, Zhang Yuanjie exonerated Japan, while the Japanese representative flatly denied it.

After the confrontation at the thank-you meeting was reported, the news media were greatly stimulated, and the upsurge of resisting the earthquake and aiding Japan turned into a protest against the Japanese massacre of Chinese workers, and they all accused Japan of the demise of benevolence, righteousness and morality.

Japan first refused to admit this, and then admitted that it was just a manslaughter: during the earthquake, the Koreans rioted, and the crowd was angry, and the Chinese were accidentally injured.

Moreover, the Japanese government has imposed a blockade on domestic news, prohibiting newspapers from reporting such news.

In Shanghai, many people recalled Lin Zixuan's abnormal behavior at the beginning, and couldn't help but wonder if Lin Zixuan had expected this situation to make that kind of abrupt move.

The people around Lin Zixuan asked this question, but he didn't answer.

What else is there to say about Japan. Even when this happens, there are still many Chinese officials who excuse Japan. It is only a misunderstanding that China and Japan are friendly neighbors. Don't let this affect diplomatic relations.

He really has nothing to say about such a country.

At this time, Pearl Sai sent the translated "The Catcher in the Rye" to Lin Zixuan.

Lin Zixuan looked at it, Pearl Sai's translation was basically in line with the original meaning, perhaps because it was a woman, the words were more elegant, which slightly weakened the sarcastic spirit of this novel.

Although her protagonist is still a hanger, there are more sad things.

Translation is often a process of re-creation, and it is by no means a matter of drawing a scoop from a gourd. That's not a good translator, as long as it can accurately express the spirit of the original work, appropriate sentence adjustment is allowed.

Moreover, translated works often bear the traces of the translator, and the translator's own things are incorporated into it.

Lin Zixuan does not reject this, he does not have to restore the original work, it doesn't make much sense.

In terms of literary creation, there is actually no distinction between high and low writers of the same level, but they are different in the choice of subject matter or the field they are good at. Maybe Pearl Sai's version of "The Catcher in the Rye" is more brilliant.

He sent the novel to Peterson lawyer in the United States and asked him to find a publishing house to publish it on his behalf.

Along with this novel, there are several comics, the protagonist of the comics is called Clark Kent, and he also has a name called Superman.

Historically. Superman appeared in 1938 and was featured in the inaugural issue of Action Comics.

The creators of "Superman" Siegel and Schuster were high school classmates, and both were science fiction fans.

They used to run their own publications in the school. Wrote a story called "Superman Empire", which tells the story of an extremely intelligent bald professor who does evil with his mind.

A company expressed interest in their work. So they created a whole new story.

That is the prototype of the modern superman: alien destruction, orphan escape. Coming to the United States, he has an amazing ability to fight to protect ordinary people......

They named the story "Superman."

However, in the years that followed, none of the publishing houses were interested in their work, and they were destitute.

In 1938, their comics gained the attention of the National United Publishing Company, a burgeoning comic book company and the predecessor of the DC Comics Company.

So, Superman was published in Action Comics, and Siegel and Schuster sold the rights to the company for $130.

I have to say that this is no different from giving it away for nothing.

But no one thought that it was this "Superman" that brought about the golden age of American comics.

Lin Zixuan naturally would not make this kind of mistake, he understood how much profit "Superman" created later, so the copyright of this comic must be in his hands.

He sent it to Attorney Peterson because he wanted to publish it in the United States, even if it was at his own expense, but he would never sell the copyright.

In his later life, he watched an American drama called "The Prequel to Superman", which tells in detail the process of Superman's growth.

Lin Zixuan wrote the script for this comic, introducing the setting of the entire comic, including the Krypton star born to Superman, the environment in which Superman grew up on Earth, his friends and enemies, and so on.

The executors were the three students he pulled from the Academy of Fine Arts.

At present, the Japanese market does not need to be considered, and it will take at least a few years for Japan to recover its economy, so it can only enter the American market.

The only problem is that none of these three people have ever been to the United States, and the United States they first drew has the shadow of Shanghai no matter how they look at it.

So, Lin Zixuan asked them to spend a month in the theater to watch American movies and write down what the United States is like.

The three of them were very excited, and the boss paid for a movie, and this kind of good thing was found there.

But after a month of continuous watching of movies, they all wanted to vomit, in this era, there are not many American movies that spread to Shanghai, and many of them are repeated screenings.

This is similar to the feeling of watching a month of video in a video hall in later generations.

In this way, they finally understand what the United States is like.

Lin Zixuan didn't ask them to draw the real United States, it was just a cartoon, as long as it looked like the United States.

If "Superman" can become popular in the United States, he can publish "Spider-Man", "Batman" and other comic book characters, so that American superheroes can become made in China.

It's not that he doesn't want to start a comic book company in the United States, it's that Chinese people are not allowed to own industries in the United States.

In the face of this kind of industry, which may involve tens of billions of dollars, Lin Zixuan believes no one.

If he had asked Peterson to set up a comic book company and give the copyright to the comic book characters, he would have nothing left in the event of a copyright dispute.

So, he'd rather be on the safe side than take risks.

Let Chinese-made comics encroach on the American market, Lin Zixuan thought vigorously.

In addition, he did not forget to send his new book to Virginia Woolf in England, "The Catcher in the Rye" uses a lot of stream-of-consciousness writing, I believe that the beautiful writer who is good at stream-of-consciousness should be interested. (To be continued.) )