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Chapter 352 The Youngest Grandmaster of Ancient Scripts! (Seeking Monthly Tickets!!!)
After working frantically, he finally finished his dictionary at the end of the third month.

A large dictionary of ancient characters.

This is the name of the dictionary, and its chief editor is Zhou Yue.

"This dictionary is selling very well. It was ordered by many libraries and universities as soon as it was published, and there are even more private orders," Dean Chen said.

He was very pleased, after all, this dictionary was the result of the joint efforts of his graduate students. Although Professor Zhou did most of the work himself, he did a third of the work.

He completed one-third of the work in three months, all by himself. Now Dean Chen has complete faith in him. Back then, he boasted that he would lead two graduate students to publish the dictionary within six months.

This isn't just boasting; it's a genuine ability. Since it's real, it's not bragging.

"Teacher Zhou works so fast, he's so much better than us old guys."

"We had a lot of people and we expected it to take another six months to complete, but we managed to organize all of this in just three months, which is definitely a huge step forward."

"Three months? I probably don't even want to think about it."

"But it has indeed been done now."

"This is a huge shock to academia."

"Alright, you don't have anything else to do now. I'll give you a task."

"What mission?"

He was still a little confused, so he looked at Dean Chen. Dean Chen basically listened to him and did whatever he said. He would help him with whatever project he wanted to do, and he would also help him solve some academic problems.

Therefore, if the old man entrusts him with a task, he will definitely do his best to complete it; otherwise, all those years of nurturing and support for him would be wasted.

"If we're going to publish the Journal of Paleography, we should do it the way we do at Ningbo University!"

"Isn't this a matter for the history department?"

He was surprised. Publishing a journal usually involves coordination among many departments. For example, the ancient script journals here are mostly published by the history department because they have an archaeology department and archaeology has a high status.

"What history department?"

"If the History Department is going to do it, then our Literature Department definitely has to do it too, otherwise we'll fall behind. And since you've made such a big splash, the academic community will definitely have mixed opinions about you. Those who praise you will definitely rave about you, but the rest of the people certainly won't let you have it so easy."

"If you were to decipher so much philological content, and they were left with nothing but scraps, then that would really threaten their academic standing."

"So, we still need to publish our own journals to convince them. Otherwise, all these people here won't be of much use."

"Basically, you still have to publish in journals. If you want to continue to improve your academic standing or continue to work in this industry, you definitely have to win over these authorities."

"Otherwise, it's basically impossible."

"So what needs to be done still needs to be done, and I have high hopes for your writing skills. The rest is up to you."

Dean Chen spoke earnestly, genuinely hoping that Teacher Zhou would do even better.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have thrown so many questions at him, but actually, these aren't really problems. If he wanted to do them, he could do them very easily.

Despite the large number of people in academia and the numerous conferences they've attended, there's a general consensus on his academic abilities. However, if they want to attack his academic standing, they certainly have ways to do so. For example, they could seize upon his weaknesses and launch a fierce attack, essentially resorting to verbal and written criticism, or publishing papers.

If a large number of papers were to come crashing down on him like this, it would definitely shake his academic standing.

Zhou Yue didn't think much of it.

Since Dean Chen asked him to do it, he did it. It was just a side job anyway. He made several architecture journals top-notch.

Even the architecture journal of Ningbo University has already mentioned that it is among the world's best.

If you're doing research on ancient scripts now, you'll definitely have some ideas.

Ancient scripts are something that everyone uses, but few people study.

Even the most prestigious ancient script journals can only be considered first-rate in the literary field, and they don't even qualify as top-tier industries in China.

Moreover, it is a tiny, insignificant journal under the category of philology.

But Dean Chen clearly meant to single out these things and make them significant.

"I will compile the application materials for these journals, and then I will look at your paper."

“Okay.” Zhou Yue nodded; he was least worried about the thesis.

He then instructed his two graduate students to continue working overtime to finish their papers.

After all, he has two graduate students in the field of philology.

These two graduate students were involved in almost all of his projects, except for the dictionary project, but they still received a lot of attention.

Putting everything else aside, once his status in this field rises, these two graduate students will definitely have a pretty good future, or even stay at Ningbo University without any problem.

Staying at the university, getting promoted to professor or dean later, is basically achievable with his connections.

Of course, it ultimately depends more on the individual's own abilities.

If someone has outstanding abilities, they can thrive in this industry even without him.

After he explained the contents of these papers, it took him almost four hours. Of course, his group meetings usually lasted about the same amount of time. Moreover, he didn't need the students to report anything; Lin Ning was the one who did most of the reporting.

He has very little time, so it needs to be used wisely. Basically, he should go through everything and then let them do it themselves.

Moreover, his lectures are very detailed. He basically outlines the main points and then has everyone work on them. Almost everyone can complete the task. For example, with ancient characters, it's the same. Once you explain all the origins and characteristics of the character, you have a fairly complete paper. Papers on characters are relatively easy to publish, especially in new journals. If he's the editor-in-chief, then students can basically just ask him to review their papers.

soon.

The journal was approved in almost a week. Dean Chen acted with incredible speed, making use of various resources in the academic circle to get the journal approved in the shortest possible time.

"Dean Chen must have planned this all along."

"That's true. I had thought before that if Professor Zhou published a journal like this, it would definitely be able to reach the advanced first-class level in China very quickly."

Zhou Yue raised an eyebrow; he hadn't expected Dean Chen to trust him so much.

But this is actually quite normal. After all, his charisma at the conference has almost won over all the scholars studying ancient scripts. Although Dean Chen studies philology, he still has a deep connection with the study of ancient scripts, since historical philology is also a branch of ancient script studies.

The first issue of the journal only listed about ten words.

These ten words were basically controversial at the conference, but in the paper they can almost be considered definitive conclusions.

Of course, once this journal was published, it was met with a barrage of criticism from other ancient script journals.

These ten words are not so simple. After he listed all the evidence, there were still some omissions, and these people kept attacking him by seizing the loopholes.

Of course, this journal is transparent, and it's obvious who published it and who is targeting them. Some university literature departments may want to take this opportunity to make a name for themselves, so they have adopted an offensive approach to these articles.

Zhou Yue didn't think much of it. After all, it's impossible for humanities subjects to satisfy everyone, and some things in humanities really don't have standard answers or definite approaches.

However, after these attacks, there were still some people who continued to support him and help him continue to look for evidence in philology. But they soon discovered that the evidence they could find was basically all in this paper, a total of ten characters. These ten characters were basically perfect, and there was nothing in the paper that could be missed or searched for.

"This paper is really well written."

Director Li kept praising the ten papers in his office. He had read all ten papers and read them very carefully.

He also studied the things that Professor Zhou had mentioned at the meeting very seriously. After all, he was one of the chief editors of the dictionary, one of the project organizers, and even the one who ran around to get funding for those national projects.

However, he felt that he only played a small part in it. Teacher Li Zhou, including those three hundred words, and the constant student meetings to finalize those words, had such profound knowledge that he was almost like a database.

It deeply shocked him; these ten papers truly resonated with him.

“These ten papers are all so well written.”

"I don't quite understand why these people are attacking his papers. Some things are indeed excusable, and there really isn't any more information available. I believe Professor Zhou is also clearly aware of this, which is why he has listed everything he could."

"The remaining things are probably mostly underground, or they haven't been unearthed yet, and there's nothing more to prove that."

"Even those books from overseas, Professor Zhou has read them carefully, so there is no problem of omissions. Those university libraries all have ancient script atlases hanging on the wall."

"Professor Zhou is extremely serious about academics. He can find so many words from scratch and even translate them. He is almost like a great scholar who has traveled from ancient times."

He greatly admired Zhou Yue, but some people didn't think so and published papers to attack him.

But he had no choice; he couldn't retaliate. After all, what the other person said was quite reasonable and well-founded. You might think one way, but others might think another. You might think you have enough information, but others might not.

Some people from Peking University are also publishing papers criticizing it.

Zhou Yue was aware of these things, so he didn't respond. Basically, when others published papers criticizing him, he would just continue to find information or show them the new texts he collected, also in the form of papers.

There's no other way. The verbal battles between scholars are basically confined to papers or academic conferences. At academic conferences, people are usually silent, but now that they're starting to write, everyone has their own ideas, and naturally, they can publish them.

The second episode came out very soon.

Surprisingly, some of the papers actually criticized his philological content.

"Professor Zhou's vision is truly remarkable. He is simply repaying evil with kindness. Most of the other papers criticize him for insufficient data or say that his work lacks any thought."

"But Professor Zhou published all of these papers. That shows his vision!"

This situation has shocked the entire academic community.

In fact, it's perfectly normal to disagree with someone's viewpoint when it comes to academic matters.

But if you express those dissenting opinions, then you really have a very broad perspective.

Moreover, as the editor-in-chief, you have the power of life and death over these papers.

Zhou Yue also read those papers. What he said was both right and wrong. One thing that was right was that there was indeed no data on some things, and many things in these texts were difficult to explain clearly. For example, you said that the shape of a character could have various variations. If the academic community generally accepted it, then you were definitely right. But if there were dissenting voices, then there was no problem.

The fact that Zhou Yue posted these things proves that he had read them carefully.

Dean Chen was also somewhat surprised when he saw the paper today.

"This kid actually posted these things. Didn't I tell him we couldn't post these things?!"

Dean Chen always felt that if you don't release these things, others will definitely not know. Even if there is no problem if you release them, there will still be some problems if people are misled.

In short, these people will definitely look for some flaws and loopholes.

Then these vulnerabilities are amplified.

Ultimately, it's because they don't want him to rise to fame in academia so easily.

It's actually quite normal.

After all, coming from a different field, it's unlikely to gain widespread acceptance.

(End of this chapter)