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Chapter 379 A Prosperous Era for Literature! (Seeking monthly votes!!!)

The academician's matter did indeed alarm many people, but these people also knew that once he made his decision, it would be difficult for ordinary people to attend.

They changed it according to his wishes, after all, the person in front of them really had the ability. However, if they didn't give him the academician title last year, it would be a bit different to give it to him this year. After all, even a clay figure has some temper. However, this was their initial idea, but after talking with Professor Zhou, they found that Professor Zhou's idea was not like that.

Teacher Zhou has truly become very worldly-wise. After navigating the world of fame and fortune for so long, he has completely figured out the rules. Otherwise, he wouldn't act this way.

These rules are mostly set by people, and many people can participate in the formulation of these rules. However, if you want to break them, or if you want to cross social classes with your youth and seniority, it may be very difficult.

After all, even if you accumulate some skills and are indeed very capable, others will only think you are very capable, and it cannot be used as a standard for promotion.

For example, academicians are like this. Although an academician position is not worth making such a big fuss about, many people value this position very much. Otherwise, there wouldn't be the story of academicians having to toast each other. Because academicians are the top people in this field, and then there are the most outstanding senior academicians with high emotional intelligence.

Emotional intelligence is a significant factor, and it's part of the criteria for evaluating a person. After all, sometimes you only need a skill to do many things well, but ultimately, you might still need connections. Professor Zhou does have such connections, but he almost never intends to use them, nor is it necessary. With his reputation, he could easily be promoted to the academician level. He didn't get promoted last year simply because the higher-ups wanted to protect him.

Although there has been some negative sentiment towards him, these sentiments are not particularly problematic and do not affect his standing as an academician.

He has already reached this level; there's no need to use other criteria to measure whether he can meet the minimum standard.

Therefore, he already has complete autonomy and doesn't need to care about others' opinions or anyone else's. That's why he chose to refuse. It's not because he's being pretentious; he's simply seen things clearly and doesn't want to participate in this kind of competition anymore.

Some people have said that his permanent withdrawal from the academician selection might be due to some genuinely lofty reasons, but he is different. He just wants to continue to work within the system. Otherwise, why would he bother to put in so much effort to climb up the ranks?
He knew that climbing higher always required making sacrifices, so he didn't have any lofty ambitions. For him, it was just a stepping stone to advancement. Now that the stepping stone was right in front of him, he chose to wait for others to climb it before he did, and simply be an ordinary person.

Geniuses among ordinary people may not be as hated or outstanding, but their level is undeniable, and no one can underestimate them, which is one of the reasons why they have enough confidence.

There are geniuses among ordinary people, but their brilliance pales in comparison to that of ordinary people.

That's not what he's focused on anymore. He's long since taken something else very seriously, like things at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, such as its architecture. That's something he cares about a lot, something he's been researching and working on.

He has also been working on the architecture journal of Huaguo University of Science and Technology, and has now published five issues. The first three issues mainly consisted of promoting some of his own projects, as well as some of his simulated cutting-edge projects, which are some of his project ideas.

These are some of the major directions for the future development of this industry. These are things that will definitely take many years of effort to achieve. He has only created a model.

The significance of these models is that they give people an idea of ​​what to do and then make it happen. No matter how long it takes, it seems worthwhile.

This is the significance of his journal. In the next journal, he selected several representative directions from all the submissions and then guided them to write their own papers. After all, the papers he submitted to the journals were all kinds of things, some of which were the most popular academic topics. But could popular topics be more popular than his ideas?
Therefore, he basically doesn't need any extremely popular ideas; he just needs some original ideas with his own insights, some things that he hadn't thought of before, and that would be even better.

Of course, what he hadn't considered was that it was something that was basically impossible to produce, at least not now, and at least not within the next thirty years. But these papers still had to be published. After these papers were published, it might lead to some leaps and bounds in the industry. That was the significance of his journal's existence.

Soon, the world's top-tier journals will be selected. In the last selection, a total of eight journals were selected, which is the previous six journals, plus his two top-tier journals.

This made him incredibly popular for a time, and his three journals were basically world-class. However, this time, many of them were cut.

They may still be quite impressed by the strength of architectural journals, so this year they reduced the number of slots to only four: two from abroad and two from China. This is basically normal, since domestic architecture is already much stronger than foreign architecture. However, many things still need time to develop, otherwise there will definitely be some flaws and problems.

The two domestic journals he created are the architecture journal of Peking University and the architecture journal of Huaguo University of Science and Technology, making a total of two. The two international journals are one from Europe and one from the Americas.

So, geographical factors are actually quite equal. After all, there are many things they haven't done before. But now their country's architecture has indeed grown, and the speed of growth has exceeded the world's imagination. Most papers in the world are basically for these two journals.

Chinese architecture has reached a world-class level, and even its architecture schools have achieved a certain level of excellence. They maintain a leading position globally; otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to surpass other countries in such a short time. After all, with Professor Zhou in charge, many things are very transparent. Furthermore, the architecture journal from South China University of Technology truly lives up to its name—it's arguably the only top-tier journal in architecture; others seem somewhat weaker.

It's not that they're incapable, but rather that the architecture journal from Huaguo University of Science and Technology is simply too outstanding. Some of the ideas published there have basically pointed out the path that architecture should take next, allowing subsequent architecture schools to maintain this leading position.

This is a tremendous honor.

Many people are paying attention to this matter, but their focus is on this journal. Everyone wants to publish some advanced papers in this journal, and if they can be cited, then it will definitely be a huge boost, right?
After all, in the field of architecture, this journal is in a very rational position; otherwise, it wouldn't be able to reach this level.

There are only so many top-tier journals.

This matter greatly excited him, but there was another thing that also caught his attention: the museum he had built had been completely completed.

This was one of the more meaningful things he had accomplished, and he hadn't expected the country to move so quickly, managing to build this museum in such a short time. Keep in mind, this is ancient architecture, which is always many times more complex than normal architecture. After all, skilled people in ancient architecture are extremely scarce, and even when they do exist, they are mostly controlled by large corporations.

"The matter of another important figure coming to inspect the library has basically been finalized. Many things have already been handed over, and Professor Zhou also needs to prepare some materials. After all, this matter is basically a done deal. When the important figure comes to inspect, Professor Zhou needs to go and explain how the library's architecture was built, as well as the books in the library, since Professor Zhou is also a professor of literature."

The university president came directly to talk to him, but the content of the conversation was quite unexpected. He hadn't expected such an important figure to come and inspect. This shows how much importance the higher authorities attach to this kind of thing. After all, a prosperous era is one that values ​​literature. If many things cannot be guaranteed, then basically no one will pay attention to books, which are things that promote progress.

Only when people are well-fed and clothed can such a prosperous era be achieved. Once a prosperous era is established, people will soon propose to revise these books.

After all, books remain extremely important to humanity, even though natural sciences have now completely overshadowed social sciences. However, many things remain unchanged. No matter how rapidly natural sciences develop, they still need the support of the humanities. Without the humanities' assessment of risks, natural sciences would stagnate.

This is actually quite normal, and it's something many experts and scholars have been saying. If artificial intelligence, or technology in general, continues to develop in this way, it will inevitably produce some things harmful to humanity. However, some scholars who study anthropology are able to perfectly avoid these problems. Therefore, scholars of anthropology, humanities and social sciences, and even those seemingly useless scholars in philosophy are actually indispensable members of human society.

They are at the forefront of society, and their research has a very positive impact on humanity. Otherwise, it would be difficult for them to survive, given the increasingly high demands placed on scholars today.

There are also some legal scholars who have made significant contributions to society, rather than just being bookish and sentimental.

Every discipline has its own significance. For example, this library in front of us will definitely attract attention from higher authorities when it is first built, since it is a library specifically requested by the authorities to store various ancient book editions.

Whether it's creation or completion, there are documents above to supervise and urge progress.

Actually, it's a very normal thing for him.

“Alright, then I’ll explain. There’s not much to say about this library, it’s just the things it holds. If you have any ideas, you can tell me. But I can see the determination of the higher-ups to revive these obscure and rare arts. After all, even when I created the Oracle Bone Script Dictionary last time, I received some commendation from them.”

The above-mentioned titles are quite natural, but the titles given are very generous, especially those of humanities and social science scholars. Even the requirements have been relaxed considerably, since their previous requirements for humanities scholars were relatively low. After all, the role that anthropologists can play in society is not that significant, and it is only when people pay more attention to them that they can make a greater contribution to society. Moreover, the authorities must have their own considerations. However, the authorities have indeed begun to pay more attention to niche and obscure fields and have actually done some things. For example, the ancient books in this library were basically purchased at a high price.

Some versions were even photocopied at great expense; if they couldn't buy them, they would photocopy them, and they could buy almost everything they could. Although some of these books are suspected of being expensive, the fact that the authorities attach so much importance to them must mean they have their own reasons.

And there is no doubt that the higher-ups really take this seriously. He didn't know who this important person was, but according to Principal Gao, this person's position was among the top in the country. That was enough to be able to speak with the top figures. He was somewhat excited, but not that excited.

After all, in their circle, the top figures are basically like university presidents, and even if the higher-ups are powerful, they can't control them.

(End of this chapter)