My art is too advanced.

Chapter 316 Can Projects Be Done This Way? (Seeking Monthly Tickets!!!)
Zhou Yue quickly finished writing the project proposal.

In fact, writing project proposals is incredibly easy for him. After all, he also has to write these project plans when applying for projects in science and engineering, and project plans in science and engineering are probably even more difficult.

So for him, there was no challenge at all. He just needed to write down how these things were structured and how they created value after being structured, and that would be about it.

Finally, to summarize, what impact and expectations does this have on the current academic community, on overseas Sinology, on people's future development, and on the future of ancient writing? Writing all these things down will basically cover the main points.

Dean Chen quickly sent the proposal to Jinghua University.

Dean Chen read this document carefully.

However, he didn't say anything, not even offering suggestions for revision, because he felt it wasn't important at all.

If they can accept it, that would be the best outcome. If they can't, they can modify the plan and collaborate with other research institutes, which is the same thing.

Although Dean Chen knew that Zhou Yue had a special relationship with Jinghua University, and even a good relationship with them in the field of ancient writing, others might not necessarily agree to participate in such a large project.

After all, it may take a long time to invest time in this project, especially for liberal arts projects, which are basically tiring and don't earn much money, and don't even have much significance for one's future development.

This is how liberal arts programs are structured.

Students can invest a lot of time, and teachers can invest a lot of time, but most of the results belong to the teachers themselves, and students can only get a little bit of hard work fee. Some mentors even try to squeeze out this little bit of hard work fee.

This is generally accepted, and there's nothing that can be done about it, since this is how most students and teachers are.

Even for the teachers themselves.

Running such a large project doesn't seem to have much effect.

Therefore, we can only cooperate with the top universities; otherwise, other schools don't offer the same level of opportunities.

Ultimately, the result of this project is just a dictionary. Although students' names can be written into the editorial board, what use is a dictionary?

You can't get a professional title without publishing papers.

Nowadays, professional titles are only based on academic papers. Monographs are also considered to some extent, but not many.

Some top university humanities professors even dedicate their entire lives to collating ancient books, such as collating a collection of poems or a work by a predecessor.

The time and workload involved are enormous, even impacting one's academic career. If one dedicates all their time to this kind of ancient book collation work, they may only be able to reach the rank of associate professor by retirement.

They can't get promoted because it requires a lot of papers. How can they evaluate students without squeezing them out?

Those who pursue scholarship, especially those who bury themselves in research, generally don't achieve much in the end. At best, they might earn a word of respect, but they won't make much money, have to invest a lot of time, and might not even get a good professional title.

Nowadays, it can be said that almost all of the top scholars are highly skilled in networking and strategizing. They have both extensive connections and strong academic abilities; otherwise, they wouldn't have reached their positions and would have been replaced long ago.

Therefore, this kind of thing can only be found among top scholars who can temporarily disregard academic papers related to professional titles.

Moreover, doing the work of collating ancient books is actually beneficial to future academic development, since understanding this kind of thing will definitely be advantageous. Of course, it only benefits personal academic advancement and doesn't bring any substantial results.

Zhou Yue also knows that people nowadays are eager for quick success and instant benefits, wanting to achieve great results in a very short time. Even he himself is like that, otherwise he wouldn't have wanted to create a large dictionary of ancient characters within half a year.

Some people may just lack opportunities, and there's nothing that can be done about it.

Director Li looked at the project proposal.

He didn't say much for a long time. "This project will most likely take at least a year to complete the data collection before we can start working on it. It might take at least five years. Professor Zhou, do you really think that we can complete all this in three months?"

"Sure!"

After receiving the call, Zhou Yue sat down.

"If it can't be finished in three months, then there's not much point in continuing this project. Besides, with so many people coming from our side and you coming from your side, I think it's still quite simple."

"By making cards, Director Li, you see, there are now more than a thousand known oracle bone script characters that can be read and thoroughly deciphered."

“We used these more than a thousand oracle bone characters to trace their origins, and then followed the clues to fill in the entire lineage of this script.”

"I can review any overlapping parts."

"The final summary can also be reviewed by me. I plan to review it three times. That is, the first time I submit it, then we will have a meeting to discuss what is lacking, and then we will continue to improve it."

"After refining it three times, it will be almost done. Director Li, the two of us can then do the final summary."

"Three months is one hundred days, right?"

"If it takes a hundred days, with twenty of us, each of us would basically only be assigned fifty characters. It would take two days to complete one ancient character and outline its structure. For us professionals, that's not difficult at all, right?"

Director Li remained silent on the other side.

He didn't expect that Teacher Zhou could assign this task in such a mechanical way.
Although it may seem easy for these professional scholars to figure out an ancient script in two days, some things in the humanities are not calculated that way at all, since a lot of data needs to be prepared in the early stages.

“I think we can give it a try first, but this timeframe can be extended to about six months. We can finish the project ahead of schedule, but three months is still too rushed.”

Zhou Yue's eyes lit up. "So that means Director Li agreed?"

"There's really nothing wrong with it. I'm also preparing for this large dictionary of ancient characters. After all, I'm getting old and want to leave something for future generations. But I didn't expect that Professor Zhou would bring this up. Professor Zhou is so thoughtful!"

"The higher-ups want to vigorously develop niche and specialized skills. With our major project approved, securing funding shouldn't be a problem. I'll take care of the preparations."

"Thank you very much."

"You're too kind, Teacher Zhou."

(End of this chapter)