"Professor Sakai, I wonder if Gu Weijing can help you, check the information, run errands or something?"

Gu Tongxiang said this very level.

In the chaotic situation of Myanmar, he has been running a gallery for half his life, and the old man may not understand academics, but he understands the sophistication of people.

Uncle Sakai's exact words are - it is not difficult to send a good paper if there is someone to guide you.

But what the old man said was still that he asked Gu Weijing to help Professor Sakai, not to ask Professor Sakai to guide Gu Weijing.

The latter is too greedy, who should be the main and who should be secondary.

Old man Gu Tongxiang's heart was clear.

A liberal arts professional paper is often long and hundreds of thousands of words.

If the publisher is interested, many doctoral dissertations in the field of art can be published directly into a book.

This kind of subject matter about the mysterious impressionist female painters of the nineteenth century may certainly be more difficult to find a painting than to write a thesis.

But simplicity is also relative.

Even if it is an SSCI, Gu Weijing has no ability to complete this paper alone.

It's not just a matter of article depth.

A&HCI liberal arts papers of this magnitude have a standard format, which requires professional expression and authentic English word choice.

Everyday English and English for Academic Purposes are two different concepts.

It is somewhat similar to the imperial examination in the feudal era of Eastern Xia.

To be published in a top literary journal, you need not only to have depth in your article, but also to be beautifully written and elegantly written.

The words are wrong, and the big bulls who review the manuscript are too lazy to look at it.

Not to mention that Gu Weijing is a middle school student born in Yangon, far away from the cutting-edge art field,

This requirement is not even met by professors in many majors.

Therefore, in countries where English is not the native speaker, there are fewer people who can publish an A&HCI paper than a top science paper such as Nature, which emphasizes experimental data.

If such an article can really be born, the main credit and effort must be Professor Sakai, and Gu Weijing will hang a name at the end of the paper at most.

Don't be unconvinced,

Professor Sakai is willing to let you put up a name, and you are actually a big bargain.

Another stingy scholar, after hearing the secret of this painting, would have kicked Gu Weijing away and written his own paper in private.

"This paper doesn't have to be too long, and this kind of topic can't be too long. It is estimated that it is only a few thousand words at most, or even a page or two. Whether you can send it or not depends on luck. ”

In the face of the temptation of an A&HCI, Uncle Sakai hesitated for a moment.

He finally made up his mind and shook his head: "It's good for Gu Weijing to write, I can put forward guidance, there is only one request?" ”

"You say?"

was hit by a pie falling from the sky, and Gu Tongxiang was broken.

At this time, Uncle Sakai even wanted the painting itself.

As long as the paper can be sent,

The old man is a hundred willing.

Tens of thousands of dollars is a lot,

But tens of thousands of dollars to post an A&HCI that can be eaten for a lifetime is too cost-effective.

Liberal arts papers are not like science and engineering papers, which often spend tens of millions of dollars to do experiments, but let alone 60,000 dollars, even if it is 600,000 US dollars, if you can produce an A&HCI, those top colleges and universities can wake up with a smile in their dreams.

Not to mention anything else, the basic salary of a tenured professor at a prestigious university is at least 100,000 US dollars per year, which is just a drizzle compared with scientific research funds.

If the painting were really an early 19th-century impressionist work, it would have been worth more than $60,000, but it would have been worth a few hundred thousand dollars.

And the art auction market is uncertain.

Andy Warhol and Pop Art, which have been popular for 20 years, have been in decline in recent years, and they have begun to become cold among collectors.

How much can it really be sold for?

God knows.

How can this be a paper that can be seen and touched?

"Since this painting was discovered by a young man, let the young man write it, and let Katsuko serve as the second author, what do you think, Gu Lao? In fact, Katsuko's grasp of the trend of art and academic professionalism are very good, and she is competent for these research materials and textual summary work. ”

Uncle Sakai pointed to his daughter.

"Me?"

Katsuko Sakai, who had been sitting cross-legged in front of the drawing board and studying paint without distraction, raised her head in surprise when she heard that there was something about herself here.

"Katsuko, this is your chance."

Uncle Sakai touched his daughter's head, and the smile on his face matched his round body, like a Santa Claus ready to hand out gifts.

The reason why he proposed to publish an article was for this request - to give his daughter the right to sign a heavyweight article.

Minors send heavyweight papers, although rare, but also every year.

The University of Tokyo, Asia's perennial No. 1 super famous school, has three or four SCI papers under its name in the admissions interview every year; I went to the Malaysian Observatory during the summer vacation and discovered an asteroid; ...... who is a Grade A patent holder of the Japan Patent Office

Many of these people are papers written by parents who are engaged in scientific research, and then bear the names of their children.

The Japanese academic community is highly closed, and everyone turns a blind eye.

Of course, there are also real cattle people.

At Katsuko Sakai's age, for art students, the awards they can get have long been soft.

But a good enough paper still has a very different meaning.

Among the major countries in East Asia, it is indeed relatively rare for women to have such a low social status as in Japan and South Korea.

It's even worse than Myanmar in this regard.

In the traditional Japanese culture in the past, the orientation of women's education was still to be a good wife and a competent mother.

Whether she is a qualified woman is a more important point than whether she is talented or not.

Chizuruko Ueno, a professor at Tokyo University, once angrily criticized at the opening ceremony of Tokyo University in 2019 - the social discipline of girls is that women can perfectly complete housework and child-rearing tasks while maintaining perfect beauty and youth, which is Japanese-style society.

At its peak, more than half of Dongying girls would become qualified housewives according to tradition after marriage, regardless of whether her career was successful or not.

Even divas like Momoe Yamaguchi are no exception.

Painters and singers alike,

In fact, no matter how good his daughter Katsuko Sakai paints, as long as she develops in Japan, she will naturally be at a disadvantage in social relations in the future.

The identity of a scholar is different.

A heavyweight paper is the key for her to break free from the shackles of fate.

Although there are few female scholars in Japanese universities, they all have high status.

If they can become female tenured professors, society will simply treat them as immortals.

It's true that wherever you go, someone will bow to you out of respect.

In particular, female scholars who have published outstanding papers in the field of art are almost the best way out for girls, which is both noble and honorable.

Even the eldest princess of the current Reiwa Imperial Family in Japan chose to become an art scholar and female doctor at the Tokyo Museum.

When Gu Weijing said his conjecture about this painting.

Uncle Sakai immediately knew that his daughter Katsuko Sakai had come to a great opportunity.

In general, when a paper is published at the age of Katsuko Sakai, people will always question the independence and originality of the article.

My father was a big artist, and there were pros and cons.

To put it bluntly, there will definitely be people who gossip that this professional paper was not written by Katsuko Sakai herself.

However, in this case, there are far fewer concerns.

The essay of two young people, the origin of the painting is innocent, and the content of the article is not too complicated.

Not only is there no question of others writing papers, but it is a beautiful talk.

At least the papers published are more convincing than those "genius" high school students who use their "spare time" to do chemistry experiments in the laboratory under their father's name.

……

The other side of the globe.

For a long time, the city of Glitz was an intimate garden for Austrians.

There are many museums and art galleries here, but unlike Vienna, which is crowded with international tourists, life is calm and uneventful.

Heading east from the castle hill, the highest point in the city, past the Baroque Mausoleum of Ferdinand II, between the Grieze Gallery and the Opera House with its golden statues, there is a small building with a blue roof and red brick walls.

This is the headquarters of Oil Painting magazine.

The ancestors of the Elena family bought the building from the Austro-Hungarian government in the XIX century.

In the two hundred years since, the world's art scene has flowed around it, whether it is turmoil or peace.

The citizens of the city of Grieze are also proud of the magazine "Oil Painting" and the Yelena family, who love art.

It is said that any member of the Elena family can dine in a café in the city for free, and any door of the city is willing to be open for them.

Even the council halls of the city hall may pass by virtue of their surnames.

But today,

For the first time in the last hundred years, the last heiress of the Elena family, she was rejected by the magazine Oil Painting.

"Miss Elena, I'm sorry, I don't know what happened, but your work permit has been suspended."

Just now, Anna found that her office ID could not open the door of the elevator.

This kind of VIP elevator is exclusive to the upper floors of the magazine and requires the corresponding permission card to unlock it.

Originally, she thought it was a system failure.

The nurse pushed her wheelchair to the counter door, and the concierge said with a confused look on her face after fiddling with her work card card reader for a while.

"The archive shows that you have been temporarily removed from the archive since yesterday afternoon."

"It's ridiculous, is it April Fool's Day. Miss Elena's family founded the magazine, and she is the owner of it. Who has the right to kick the owner out of the house? ”

The aunt who pushed the wheelchair nurse had some disbelief on her face.

Anna waved her hand.

In principle, she doesn't actually own the magazine.

In the sixties of the last century, in order to make the magazine more professional and public, Anna's great-grandfather transferred 80% of the shares of the magazine to the Austrian National Publishing Group and the European Art Association for 1 Austrian shilling.

By the time Anna took over the family business, she was still the magazine's largest private shareholder.

But the head of the magazine was Sir Brown from Denmark, the chairman appointed by the European Art Association.

Her only official status at the magazine was that she was a senior editor and freelance writer for the visual arts section of Oil Painting magazine.

If the management is unhappy with Anna, they can naturally fire an editor.

"It's ...... Targeting me? ”

Anna knows about the magazine's role in recent years, especially after the death of her aunt.

The new generation of management is often dissatisfied with the fact that the magazine has too many personal imprints that belong to the old Yelena family.

It's just that everyone's friction is generally carried out in secret, and on the surface, they will at least be in harmony with each other.

This is the first time that this kind of blatant thing has been directed at oneself.

Anna pulled her phone out of the pocket of her gray ladies' suit and dialed a number in her address book.

There was a long tick, and no one answered.

She hung up the phone with a blank face, and clicked the replay again...... Until, she called the phone number for the third time, and this time, the call finally got through.

"Chairman Brown, I would like to make an appointment to meet...... No, I'm not asking for your opinion. I am informing you to arrange a meeting, as a private shareholder, which is my authority. ”

Ten minutes later, on the top floor of the headquarters of Oil Painting magazine, in the office of the chairman.

"Welcome, my child. Tea? Coffee? ”

Sir Brown is seventy years old this year, but he is very energetic, with a small white mountain beard on his chin, but his hair is thinly dyed, and there is not a trace of gray hair to be seen.

He looked very kind, not like a professional manager, but like a kind old professor in the school.

"Would you like some Filipino cherry preserves, it's to my taste."

Sir Brown pushed a small silver box of preserved fruits across the desk, "I'm sorry, but I was going to go to Yelena Manor tomorrow to explain to you the decision of the magazine myself. ”

"You're going to fire me?"

Anna asked coldly.

"Of course not, who can fire a lady surnamed Elena here?"

Sir Brown laughed a little wryly.

As the current head of the magazine, he didn't like Anna's influence in the magazine.

But he was still unwilling to fire the last heir of the Yelena family.

This is a huge scandal for both sides.

"It's just that we need to have a necessary conversation, and you know our magazine has been in a bit of trouble lately."

Sir Brown handed over some newspapers.

"Although all those media reports are nonsense, but ...... We still have to take into account the bad effects it can have. ”

Anna took the newspaper and magazine and flipped through it casually.

The first one is the front page news of "THE MOON" that I once saw.

"If the reports are all, then why bother...... Besides, we're not politicians, so when do we need to care about the coverage of a vulgar newspaper like The Moon? ”

Anna looked Sir Brown in the eye, "Is there anything else I don't know?" ”

"With that said...... Honestly, yes. ”

Sir Brown shrugged.

"I received the message that De Jong Van Doorne does not want his name and a ...... His original words are 'Monkey wielding a brush' web illustrator that appears in the same art critic's guide. He thinks it's an insult to him, and if we don't cancel his account, we'll contact a lawyer to sue the magazine. ”

"Then revoke his [Buyer's Guide]. Does Oil Painting Magazine need to heed the threat of an insignificant old rascal who can only draw empty lines of madman babbling? Anna didn't flinch.

"Kid, before you jump to conclusions, I suggest you take a look at this."

Sir Brown handed over a fax of a paper.

Anna took the document and glanced at the two lines, her face as cold as ice.

The file is actually not long.

The content is nothing more than an accusation that "Oil Painting" magazine has degenerated into hiring an inexperienced girl like her to become an art critic by virtue of her family name, and allowing a small painter like a webtoon illustrator to appear in the column of serious painter recommendations.

The person who wrote the fax said that he thought the magazine had lost its professionalism and hoped that he would withdraw from the magazine's buyer's recommendation.

There was more than one signature behind him, but Van Doorne was not the only one.

In total, it includes seventeen well-known painters, led by Van Doorne.

Van Doorne has a wide range of careers in art circles, many of these names are close friends of Van Doorne, and a few are people who hold a grudge because their paintings have been refuted by Anna in a spicy tone in past art criticism.

At this time, they also seized the opportunity of heated public opinion to jump out of the joint name.

Van Doorne may indeed be an old rascal, but his connections are unquestionable.

He himself was by no means insignificant as Anna had claimed, and the addition of these seventeen names would have made it difficult for even the top management of Oil Painting magazine.

"It's forcing the palace, they don't really want to quit the Oil Painting magazine, they're just demonstrating. An art critic compromises with artists, and once this kind of thing happens, there will be a second time. ”

Anna shook her head.

"And I stand by my point of view, the lady of the detective cat is an excellent painter, and her level of painting and artistic accomplishment are enough to meet the standards of being featured in Oil Painting magazine."

She is not willing to compromise at all: "Detective cat ......"

"Perhaps, kid."

Sir Brown's tone became impatient: "You still don't understand what I'm talking about, Anna. Detective cat? Oh, maybe she's enough, maybe she's not enough, it doesn't matter. People can't live in the world of art forever, and the topic we are discussing today has nothing to do with art, only with reality. ”

"And the reality is that your actions have caused a PR crisis for Oil Painting magazine."

"In view of the public opinion on the Internet, I have asked our editorial office to withdraw the buyer recommendation about Detective Cat."

Sir Brown said in a polite but undeniable tone.

He continued: "And I need you to write a formal apology letter to Mr. Van Doorne to gain the other party's understanding. ”

(End of chapter)