Back to 80: My Literary Life

Fang Minghua hurried to the kindergarten. The children had already finished school. He saw his daughter and a cute little boy with golden curly hair walking hand in hand, talking and laughing, followed by the nanny and a young white woman.

Oops

Holding hands at such a young age?

"Xinxin!" Fang Minghua shouted.

The little girl looked at Fang Minghua blankly, then finally recognized him, let go of the little boy's hand, opened her arms and ran towards Fang Minghua.

"Dad, Dad."

"Good daughter." Fang Minghua picked up his daughter and kissed her little face.

The little boy looked at Fang Minghua curiously.

"Jim, my dad is coming to pick me up and take me home. Byebye (Jim, my dad is coming to pick me up and take me home, bye)," Xinxin said to the little boy, and immediately asked Fang Minghua: "Dad, what are you doing?" The time has come. Where is my mother? "

Oh my God

The conversion between English and Chinese is smooth.

"I just got home. Mom is waiting for you at home." Fang Minghua replied, smiled and said hello to the little boy and his mother, and then followed the nanny towards home.

Along the way, the little girl was very talkative, chattering about things in the kindergarten.

"Jim said I was pretty, and he said he wanted to marry me when he grew up." The little girl said with a smile.

What?

You want to eat my cabbage at such a young age?

And it’s still a white-skinned pig!

Of course, Fang Minghua understands that children's words are unbridled.

"Really?" Fang Minghua asked deliberately.

"Really!" The little girl's eyes were firm.

"I'm going to ask Jim tomorrow if that's what he said."

"But you can't find him."

"I'll block him at the school gate!" Fang Minghua said.

"Really?" The little girl looked surprised.

"real!"

Fang Minghua said and couldn't help laughing.

When he came to San Francisco, Fang Minghua took the initiative to take his daughter to kindergarten.

Fang Minghua got up at seven in the morning, put on his sportswear and pants, went out and ran a long lap along the road, then came back to take a shower and wash up, and then the whole family had dinner together.

Li Li drove to school, and Fang Minghua held his daughter's hand and went to kindergarten happily. The only thing he was not dissatisfied about was that he ate bread and milk in the morning and could not drink spicy soup from Xijing City.

After seeing off his daughter, Fang Minghua had to go about his own business. He first drove to Ashley Press and talked about work with Demi.

After several years of development, Ashley Press has already got rid of the predicament of being about to close down. It is well-known in the American publishing industry and has made a lot of money with the "Harry Potter" series.

Although the scale cannot be compared with giants such as Simon \u0026 Schuster and Penguin Random House, it has its own uniqueness.

Signed a strategic alliance with China's largest private publishing company, Shengshi Books,

In the past few years, more than 40 outstanding works by contemporary Chinese writers have been published, such as "Steel Piano", "Abandoned Capital", "White Deer Plain", "Ordinary World", "Alive", etc., becoming a window for American readers to understand Chinese literature. .

At the same time, we are actively cooperating with some famous European publishing houses to introduce the French and German versions of these novels to Europe and Latin America.

Fang Minghua is very satisfied with this.

It doesn’t matter whether you make money or not, the important thing is to export Chinese culture.

"The next step is not limited to China's serious literature, but also genre literature, such as Chinese youth literature and science fiction novels. All excellent works can be published."

"Mr. Minghua, does China have youth literature?" Demi asked.

I! @##%……

Fang Minghua was speechless.

In the 1950s, two famous juvenile literature works appeared in Europe and the United States, namely "The Catcher in the Rye" by American writer Salinger and "Lord of the Flies" by British Nobel Prize winner William Golding. .

Lewis's fantasy novel "The Chronicles of Narnia" and Hinton's 1967 novel "The Outsider" have become typical representatives of youth literature. In the 1960s, literature began to establish the concept of readers of the “young generation under 30 years old”. The underage literature of this period, that is, youth literature, began to form an independent literary category.

The 1969 novel "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", 1967's "The Bell Jar" and 1970's "Bless the Beasts and the Children" touch on all aspects of young people's lives. Their bestsellers have gradually made the concept of "youth literature" popular among readers. accept.

However, in the 1950s, China also had its own youth literature.

It's Wang Meng's "Long Live Youth"!

Forget it, I’m too lazy to popularize Demi.

Let’s let the works speak for themselves.

Han Han's "Three Gates" should be released, right?

I wonder if Shu Bin is staring at this boy?

Shu Bin did not forget Fang Minghua's advice.

Last year, in 1999, the "Sprouting" magazine affiliated to the Shencheng City Writers Association held the first new concept composition contest. After Han Han won the second prize, Fang Minghua called Shu Bin and asked him to take the initiative to contact the young man and care about him. writing.

And now, George Han appeared in Shu Bin's office.

While Shu Bin was flipping through the novel called "Three Gates", he glanced at George Han sitting on the sofa.

He really couldn't connect the seemingly rebellious teenager in front of him with the novel in front of him.

"If a king has three levels of power, he will have few mistakes." - "Book of Rites·The Doctrine of the Mean".

The source of the novel "Triple Door".

Just this title, a middle school student who loves to skip school and fight can come up with it? !

"Student Han, please leave the manuscript with me first. The editors will review it carefully and will reply to you in the future. Is that okay?"

Shu Bin looked kind.

Han Han nodded and said, "Mr. Shu, I will leave you our home address. You don't have to send the reply to our school."

"Why?"

"Because I'm going to drop out of school soon."

Han Han's words surprised Shu Bin.

Dropping out of school just after completing nine years of compulsory education?

So as an elder, he kindly reminded him, "Student Han, don't be impulsive. You are only in the first year of high school, right? You can't even get a high school diploma. How will you support yourself in the future?"

"Here." Han Han pointed to the manuscript on the desk.

"Payment, bye!" He turned and left.

Shu Bin was left with a stunned look.

Are all the people born in the 1980s so arrogant?

These events were later told in the email that Shu Bin sent to Fang Minghua. He told Fang Minghua that Shengshi Books had decided to publish the book "Triple Door". The electronic version had been sent to him according to Fang Minghua's request, and it would be translated into English and handed over to Ashley Press for publication.

In this case, Fang Minghua immediately handed the manuscript to Li Li, and he didn't have to worry about the rest. He still had to deal with the 8 billion US dollars in stock trading.

So, after sending Xinxin to kindergarten this morning, Fang Minghua called Phillips in Chicago after returning home.