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Chapter 351 The Art That's Hard to Distinguish Between Authentic and False! (Seeking Monthly Tickets!!!)
"How are your recent projects going? These junior students are actually quite good at their studies. You'll be mentoring them for a while. As for other projects or anything like that, you can come and ask me directly."

“You should take a look at some of their previous projects and papers so that we can assign them some projects later. I have read all the papers they have supervised and I have also reviewed most of their projects. These doctoral students are actually quite good.”

"It also has promising prospects in academic circles."

Zhou Yue gave some instructions.

Lin Ning nodded. He had a good feeling about these doctoral students and didn't have any major thoughts about them. It was actually quite normal for him to mentor these doctoral students, since he was the senior student.

Moreover, he is quite proficient in all disciplines of architecture.

Regardless of the research direction, he can provide relevant research opinions and ideas.

They have quite a few new ideas. As for the innovative points of the papers, that's something that everyone in academia is pursuing, but they've actually done quite a few projects that are in niche academic fields.

The innovative points in the papers are not rare for them at all. They just need to improve the papers. They are too busy with projects to handle. Innovation and papers are very simple things for them.

Moreover, discussion papers are relatively easy to publish. As long as their papers pass the review, the journal's reviewers are basically their own people. As for external expert review, that is definitely more rigorous.

They don't want their people to use too many back channels, so the external review is still very strict and done according to procedure. They are a little more lenient here, but stricter outside.

But we're all doing research projects, so who doesn't know who?

It takes only a little thought to know who did the research and whose project it is. So, we have to give them the respect they deserve. This is the norm in China, so they usually invite foreign experts to review the project.

Of course, the same applies to experts abroad.

In this circle, you can't avoid these things. Social skills are the most basic thing. Everyone else strictly follows this set of procedures. As for whether there are any mistakes, that's not something that people want to think about. The lower-level graduate students just want to publish their papers, while the higher-ups have to think about whether or not to give them face.

Therefore, his doctoral students have a relatively high chance of graduating. Both the various projects and journals under his supervision are conducive to academic development, or at least to the academic progress of his research group.

In addition, he is a top figure in this industry and an academician of a foreign academy of sciences.

Almost no one would refuse to give them face.

Although he knew that this situation would inevitably involve a lot of social obligations, he had no choice, since he couldn't give up his position.

They were all achieved through my own hard work, writing one paper after another and working on one project after another.

So he didn't have any other ideas.

He only paid a little attention to these doctoral students. Zhou Yue could understand what they were researching and what they were doing at the undergraduate or graduate level just by glancing at their projects and papers.

Of course, these things form the foundation for them, but PhDs still need to specialize in more specific areas.

You must reach the top position in at least one field.

Otherwise, if people go out and say he's their student, wouldn't that bring shame to the family?

Although he doesn't have high expectations for his students, since they've come to him and want to learn, he still wants to give them a good space to grow.

He didn't think much of it.

I paid a little attention to them, then created a form for targeted training of these individuals, and then handed it over to Lin Ning to complete.

The weekly reports were basically him talking about these topics. As for the progress of other people's projects, Zhou Yue never cared too much. Because in his opinion, as long as everyone worked hard, they could definitely do it based on his understanding of the courses and projects. If you couldn't do it, you could hand it over to someone else.

Anyway, it's still quite lenient.

Moreover, Lin Ning is basically in charge of all these things.

He was focused on something else.

Meetings have been happening more and more frequently lately because the dictionary is almost finished.

Even though he was almost finished at four o'clock, there were still some uncertainties about the three hundred words he had left, so he had no intention of continuing to fill in those words.

It has about twenty characters.

One-tenth, almost one-tenth.

But he felt there was no need to argue about these things now, because there was indeed not enough data to prove that many things were true.

Even though he could provide some specific factors and reasons, he decided to put those things aside completely.

Discussing these things, since they are controversial, would definitely take a lot of time, and he doesn't have that time. The other organizational work is nearing completion, so there's no need to continue arguing about these trivial matters.

Just leave it there; since there's controversy, there's absolutely no need to do that.

It's normal for textual works to be controversial, as they are a humanities subject. There's no time to argue about them; we can leave them there and add to them when the second or third edition comes out. Of course, some effort will be required, but there's no need to do so now.

Recent meetings have mainly focused on reviewing the finalized wording, identifying any areas that need improvement, and discussing ways to enhance the design. These are the issues we need to consider now.

There are actually many things to consider.

Now we need to thoroughly sort out this framework and refine every single word.

The brainstorming sessions were mostly held within the two universities.

Beijing University and Ningbo University.

Almost every university did a part of it, but he did even more on his own, almost three hundred words, and in the end, there were probably more than two hundred and seventy finalized parts.

These are all academic gaps, but if you put all these academic gaps into a dictionary, it's equivalent to a monograph.

He wasn't very familiar with other majors, but his work on philology and ancient writing was absolutely groundbreaking.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many meetings, big and small.

At the last meeting, more than seventy staff members, including all the staff members, gathered at Jinghua University.

Today is the day to put all the manuscripts together and submit them to the publisher.

Zhou Yue and Director Li each gave their respective summaries.

This is no easy feat. After all, so many people worked for such a long time to complete this dictionary. It's a massive project, requiring a lot of research and even special approvals from several departments. The fact that this huge project was completed in just three months is truly inspiring.

Everyone was happy about this. Soon.

This dictionary was then submitted to the Ningbo University Press.

The publisher even gathered many editors, and some external editors, to review and organize these texts together.

Most of these editors still have to review the manuscripts. Even if it contains some very technical content, they might not take the original book to look at, but they will definitely review things like the source and typos.

At least we can guarantee that after this book is published, many things will be without any flaws.

That's their publishing house's job.

Moreover, this is a dictionary. When they were working on the project, there were more than fifty people involved, and when they were reviewing it, there were more than a dozen people reviewing it together.

After all, this is a national-level project, and it has even received funding support from higher authorities, so we need to get it done as soon as possible.

No one put pressure on them, but they themselves felt that it was going to be done soon.

Zhou Yue was also quietly waiting for news.

"Brother Yue, after this dictionary project is completed, you shouldn't have any other projects, right?"

Yes, of course we have it.

Zhou Yue smiled and said, "I just received a message from above saying that there is a major national project waiting for me."

"What project is it? Does it require a personal report to you?"

“Let’s design one,” Zhou Yue said. “Recently, the higher-ups have been focusing on niche and obscure disciplines, so they’re saying they need to build a library.”

"Actually, it's not a library anymore, it's a version archive."

"Used to store ancient books."

"The versions of ancient books are very important because a book can have different versions. For example, the Book of Songs had three schools of transmission in ancient times, but in the end only one of them survived. Even the one that survived has different copied versions. Some versions may have some typos, and some versions may not be that important at all, but they can be very useful at certain times."

"For example, if an important version is lost, then we can only use a relatively better version."

"What is a rare book? It is a good version, a relatively complete version, and a version with corresponding value."

"The most important aspects of collating ancient books are still the catalog, the edition, and the collation."

“In fact, cataloging is also very important, but it is based on textual criticism.”

"Sometimes fake books are also rampant. For some unknown reason, someone in the past deliberately created a fake book."

"There are various reasons, but these things still need to be identified, so the version archive still needs a lot of talent."

“It’s not too late for you to learn how to organize ancient books now. You can go straight to work when the time comes,” Zhou Yue said with a smile.

"Are you still teasing me?" Lin Ning laughed. "I don't have that ability. I'm good enough at working on STEM projects. As for humanities, they're just a headache."

"There are fake books?"

"Of course there are."

"In fact, some cataloging works are fake."

"Let me give you an interesting example. There was an old catalogue, a family collection of books. After scholars examined it, they found that a considerable number of the books were not actually listed, but were copies of other catalogues."

"In other words, when he compiled a catalog for his family's collection, he was simply listing the books in his family's collection. However, a considerable number of the books were listed but not actually read. This part of the catalog was directly copied from other people's catalogs."

"It's understandable, after all, you want to expand your reputation. You create a catalog of books that didn't exist before, but this allows scholars to directly cite them, leaving some confusion. When the truth is revealed, they might feel it's not quite right."

Lin Ning nodded.

"It is quite difficult to organize ancient books because you don't know what is real and what is fake, and many ancient books have been lost to history."

"It's hard to tell the difference between what's real and what's fake."

"Then we can only rely on subjective judgment."

"If you have a clear reasoning and evidence, and can convince people in academia, then you can put forward your new viewpoint. You can say that all books are fake, but you have to give corresponding reasons to make people believe it, then this book may be fake."

"Some authoritative books are also fake."

"Truth and falsehood are intertwined; in fact, the ancients were the ancestors of forgery."

"Okay, does this museum need this kind of abstract architecture?" Lin Ning nodded, then looked puzzled.

It is indeed puzzling, after all, they specialize in abstract architecture, and many of their buildings, at first glance, seem to possess a kind of chaotic beauty.

Now, this is the task assigned by the higher-ups. Is it really possible to do this?

Moreover, since ancient books are a rather serious, even extremely serious, subject, it's not suitable to use their new approach.

It's mixed with too much personal subjective aesthetics; would those in power agree?

If it were a private villa, there would certainly be no problem with doing this, but this is not a private villa. It is a rather traditional and serious ancient book repository that is even under the attention of higher authorities.

“Of course not. If we still use that kind of approach, we’ll really be criticized.” Zhou Yue rolled his eyes at him. “The higher-ups are here because of your abilities, not because of your abstract thinking.”

“Even many people in China haven’t accepted our abstract thinking. I can still see posts criticizing the Grand Theatre.”

"It is clear that this kind of aesthetic requires a period of time to change and adapt to."

"Actually, it's not that things have changed, but rather that you get used to them. Treat these things as special objects. If you have a traditional aesthetic, you should also have these rather strange things."

"But the text hall must be built in the style of ancient architecture."

"As I said before, ancient buildings rarely undergo any special changes. Of course, if it's a new style, there's still some room for personal interpretation."

(End of this chapter)