After Cao Yongluo read the content of the book the next day, he made a phone call with Zhou Xin and had a general chat about the matter.
Zhou Xin was quite dumbfounded after hearing this. He had very few impressions of Zhao Zhihua in his mind.
Zhou Xin originally thought that New Oriental would use the contract they signed and contact him to publish a book or something.
It's possible that New Oriental contacted him, but there were too many emails in his mailbox that he didn't see. Unexpectedly, the first person to publish a book was a classmate whom he could only say he knew.
Zhou Xin didn't have a good way to solve this problem. If he wanted to solve it, as long as he had this desire, he could ask Cao Yongluo and use the connections in Cao Yongluo's family to solve it.
However, there are still great hidden dangers in this solution. First of all, it uses public power to do things for private individuals without going through relevant procedures.
It doesn't seem like it's okay to do this now, but it may cause problems when you return to your country later.
So when Cao Yongluo asked him on the phone if he wanted to help solve the matter, Zhou Xin refused.
At most, this solution will only prevent the book from being published, but it will not have any effect on the hundreds of thousands of copies that have been sold.
The original version has sold hundreds of thousands of copies, let alone the pirated version.
It is impossible not to deal with this matter. This is not only an infringement of his personal reputation, but if it is not dealt with, there is no telling what trouble will be caused in the future.
For example, domestic success masters regard him as a memorial, saying that they once taught Zhou Xin, so Zhou Xin could achieve such great success.
After Zhou Xin thought about it for a while, he could only think of contacting a domestic law firm that specializes in this area and suing individuals and companies one by one for infringing on his reputation.
Anyway, he has the money to afford the lawsuit.
However, this method is inefficient. China's punishment for such infringement of reputation rights is very light, and it is difficult to truly deter the group of people who want to profit from his popularity.
This is also a problem for Zhou Xin. Even in 2020, it will be difficult to hold accountable this kind of behavior, let alone now.
Two words, headache.
Zhou Xin planned to put this matter aside for now. He had a dinner with Yang Zhiyuan in the evening. Yang Zhiyuan asked him to dress more formally and said he had a friend he wanted to introduce to him.
When Zhou Xin left Beverly Hills in a tattered second-hand GM, he could tell at a glance that it was Newman, who had become famous in the past year.
Zhou Xin was the only one in Beverly Hills who drove such a bad car, so much so that the property manager and some neighbors thought the young Chinese man had some quirks.
"Newman, long time no see. This is Li Xihui, Robert Lee, the vice chairman of California Blue Shield Insurance Group."
Jerry Yang is very enthusiastic and does not regard Zhou Xin as an enemy because of the many rounds of competition between Yahoo and Zhou Xin's companies.
Business is business, and friendship is friendship. Jerry Yang has a deep identification with the Chinese identity. Therefore, as a famous entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, he believes that he and Zhou Xin naturally have a lot of common topics.
From time to time, Yang Zhiyuan would call Zhou Xin to come out for a get-together.
After shaking hands with Li Xihui, Zhou Xin said: "Hello, I am very happy to meet another Chinese senior."
At the same time, Zhou Xin thought about Blue Shield Insurance, which was quite famous. He could often see the stores and advertisements of this insurance company.
But the problem is that insurance company executives and Jerry Yang are at odds with each other, unless Blue Shield Insurance wants to advertise on Yahoo.
It's even weirder to come and see myself.
Li Xihui was smiling all over his face. In order to appear more enthusiastic, he shook his hand up and down several times when shaking hands with Zhou Xin.
"It's nice to meet you too. It's really scary now. When I was your age, I was still an undergraduate at the University of Southern California.
We are also alumni in a sense. I did my MBA at Berkeley.
And I have made great achievements in the Internet field, which is much better than when I was young. Even at the age of twenty, I have achieved greater achievements than when I was sixty. "
Li Xihui seemed extremely humble, mainly because Zhou Xin had gone through his own memories and didn't know who the other party was.
However, just being able to become the vice chairman of Blue Shield Insurance as a Chinese is already very powerful. It has broken the Chinese ceiling and is considered a famous Chinese.
If the other party was so polite to him, Zhou Xin would definitely not slap him in the face. After a few words of greeting, Li Xihui continued to ask:
"Do you know that America has always had a tradition of association?"
Zhou Xin nodded, secret societies. Later, many conspiracy theories came from secret societies in Europe and the United States.
The Illuminati, Skull and Bones, etc. are all secret societies in a sense.
Including when Zhou Xin was studying for his PhD at Berkeley, Lighthizer's grandson joined a certain fraternity.
The fraternity is part of the tradition of secret societies at American University.
As a Chinese, Zhou Xin has a natural resistance to these things. He is still doing this at all ages.
When he was in Berkeley, a Chinese secret society also invited him to join, but he refused.
"I know, there are fraternities similar to secret societies in our university. When I first came here, no fraternity invited me to join. Later, after I was studying for a Ph.D., someone invited me to join."
Li Xihui continued: "Zhiyuan and I are both members of a society called the Hundreds, which is different from the university fraternity. We don't engage in those kinds of young people's activities.
We mainly focus on socializing, funding Chinese education, and promoting political and economic exchanges between China and America.
I am one of the earliest founders of the Committee of 100 and the current chairman of the Committee of 100. Zhiyuan is also a member of us.
This time, let Zhiyuan serve as an intermediary to introduce me to you. It is also the Committee of 100’s wish to invite you to join our organization.
Our members include Ieoh Ming Pei, Chen Ning Yang, etc. A large number of outstanding Chinese in various fields are members of the Committee of 100. "
Zhou Xin immediately understood after listening to it. The Committee of 100 is a very famous Chinese organization. Almost all the slightly famous Chinese in the United States are members of the Committee of 100.
Famous people like Yau Shing-tung, Locke Ka-fai, Zhang Zhongmou, Wu Jianxiong, etc. Kai-fu Lee also joined this organization, and he is not even a middle-class player in it.
Hu Zhengming had talked with him about the Committee of 100. When he was just an ordinary professor, he was not qualified to join the Committee of 100.
When he was qualified to join the Committee of 100, there was Zhang Zhongmou in the Committee of 100. He and Zhang Zhongmou had different ideas, so he never joined the Committee of 100.
Another very important point is that Hu Zhengming does not like to join this kind of organization.
In 2003, when five people including Qiu Chengtong, Liu ZY, and Pei Minxin joined the Committee of 100, Hu Zhengming was actually able to join them.
Qiu Chengtong does not need to be introduced too much. Liu ZY was appointed as the president of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and was attracted by the Committee of 100. Pei Minxin is a senior researcher at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Zhou Xin has a relatively neutral view of the Committee of 100. He had only heard of it from Hu Zhengming before and had never had any dealings with it.
Unexpectedly, after only one year in Americen, the Committee of 100 would come to visit, "I want to know what obligations I need to bear, and I can roughly guess what I can get."
In addition, Zhou Xin seemed to have remembered something: "I remember that the meeting of 100 people seemed to have to be an American, right?
I’m afraid a Chinese like me who only has a green card does not meet the requirements of the Committee of 100? "
Li Xihui picked up the cup and took a sip of wine and then said: "The rules set by our founders, Mr. Pei I.M. Pei and Mr. Yo-Yo Ma, at the beginning, the Committee of 100 was to promote exchanges between China and America and promote relations between the two countries.
At the same time, we will speak out for the Chinese community in America and strive for more voice for all Chinese people.
Our initial request was indeed to recruit only Amerikan citizens.
However, it has been almost ten years since the establishment of the Committee of 100, and the earth is about to enter the 21st century. We also need changes, so we changed the rules and allow one Chinese citizen holding an American green card to join the Committee of 100 every year. "
After speaking, Li Xihui paused for a moment: "It can be said that it was your appearance that made us decide to change the rules.
If Newman, who is well-known in Silicon Valley, does not join the Committee of 100, then what is the point of the Committee of 100 being the elite of the elite?
And we have discussed this topic in depth internally. An association that aims to promote the relationship between China and America needs not only Chinese Americans, but also representatives from China to speak out.
Not only have we modified the membership rules, but the membership fee of the Committee of 100 previously only sponsored Amerikan’s Chinese students. Starting this year, we will also sponsor outstanding Chinese international students. "
Although the Committee of 100 is an American organization, during the period when America was imposing tariffs, it had been calling on the American government to engage in dialogue to resolve differences.
In 2019, the Committee of 100 jointly issued a statement with organizations such as the American Chinese Business Association, the China-American Business Association, and the Overseas Chinese Federation, calling on the American government to withdraw new tariffs on Chinese goods.
To put it simply, the Hundred People Club is much better than many gods and gods who have been released.
"As for what you need to do, you may be required to participate in the internal activities of the Committee of 100. Our annual fixed membership fee is US$1,000, which is nothing to you.
At the same time, if you have any needs, you can mention it to us and we will find a way to help you solve it. "
Yang Zhiyuan took over: "Yes, judging from my experience in joining the Committee of 100, the Committee of 100 has helped in many places.
This is a great non-political organization that can be of great help to you in expanding your network at Amerikan.
Newman, whether you join the Committee of 100 or not is entirely up to you. From a friend's point of view, I think this can help you integrate into Amerikan society more quickly. "
Jerry Yang was also admitted as a member of the Committee of 100 after he rose to prominence as an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley.
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I want to go back and understand it carefully before replying. Regardless of whether I join the Committee of 100 or not, it will not affect my friendship with the Committee of 100.
One more question, if I don’t join, will the Committee of 100 still recruit Chinese members this year? "
Have you ever seen the organization the Committee of 100 in other articles about the rebirth of America?
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