"Professor Sakai, I wonder if Gu Weijing can help you, check information, run errands or something?"
Gu Tongxiang said this very well.
Being able to run a gallery for half his life in the chaotic current situation in Myanmar, the old man may not understand academics, but he understands the world.
Uncle Sakai's original words are - it is not difficult to publish a good paper if there is someone to guide you.
But what the old man said was still to ask Gu Weijing to help Professor Sakai, not to ask Professor Sakai to guide Gu Weijing.
The latter is too greedy, who should be the master and who should be the second.
Mr. Gu Tongxiang was very clear in his heart.
A professional paper in the liberal arts can often be hundreds of thousands of words long.
If a publishing house is interested, many doctoral theses in art can be directly compiled into a book and published.
Of course, it may be more difficult to find a painting than to write a thesis about this mysterious female Impressionist painter of the 19th century.
But simplicity is also relative.
Even if it is an SSCI, Gu Weijing does not have the ability to complete this paper alone.
It’s not just a question of the depth of the article.
Liberal arts papers of the A&HCI level have a standard format, which requires professional expression and authentic English wording and sentence making.
Daily English and academic English are two different concepts.
It is somewhat similar to the imperial examination in the Eastern Xia feudal era.
To be published in a top literary journal, the article not only requires depth, but also beautiful writing and elegant words.
The wording is wrong, and the experts who review the manuscript are too lazy to read it.
Not to mention that Gu Weijing was a middle school student born in Yangon, far away from the cutting-edge art field.
Even professors in many majors cannot meet this requirement.
Therefore, in countries where English is not the native language, there are fewer people who can publish an A&HCI article than those who can publish a top science paper such as Nature-related sub-journals that place more emphasis on experimental data.
If such an article can really be produced, the main credit and efforts must be made by Professor Sakai. The most that Gu Weijing can do is put a name at the end of the paper.
Don't be dissatisfied,
If Professor Sakai is willing to put your name on it, you are actually getting a huge advantage.
A stingier scholar, after hearing the secret of this painting, would have kicked Gu Weijing away long ago and went to write his thesis in private.
"This paper doesn't need to be too long, and it shouldn't be too long on this kind of topic. It's probably only a few thousand words at most, or even one or two pages. Whether it can be published depends on luck."
In front of the temptation of an A&HCI article, Uncle Sakai hesitated for a moment.
He finally made up his mind and shook his head: "Gu Weijing can just write it. I can give you some guidance. I have only one request?"
"You say?"
Gu Tongxiang was very happy when he was hit by a pie falling from the sky.
At this time, Uncle Sakai just wanted the painting itself.
As long as the paper can be published,
The old man would be happy to do so.
Tens of thousands of dollars is certainly a lot;
But tens of thousands of dollars to get an A&HCI that lasts a lifetime is a great deal.
Liberal arts papers are not like science and engineering papers where tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars are often spent on experiments, but let alone 60,000 US dollars, even if it is 600,000 US dollars, even those top universities can produce an A&HCI. You can wake up with a smile even in your dreams.
Apart from anything else, the annual basic salary of a tenured professor at a prestigious university is at least hundreds of thousands of dollars, which is just a drop in the bucket compared with scientific research funding.
If this painting is really an early Impressionist work in the 19th century, it should be worth more than $60,000, but it usually only ends up being a few hundred thousand dollars.
Moreover, the price of art auctions is unpredictable.
Even Andy Warhol and Pop Art, which have been popular for twenty years, have been in decline in recent years, and have begun to become less popular among collectors.
How much can it really be sold for?
God knows.
There is no such thing as a paper that can be seen and touched.
"Since this painting was discovered by a young man, let him write it. Let Shengzi be the second author. What do you think, Mr. Gu? Shengzi actually has a good grasp of the trend of art and academic professionalism. It’s great, and it’s more than capable of doing the work of reviewing information and summarizing text.”
Uncle Sakai pointed at his daughter.
"I?"
Sakai Katsuko, who had been sitting cross-legged in front of the drawing board and studying paints without any distractions, raised her head in surprise when she heard that there was something of her own here.
"Katsuko, this is your chance."
Uncle Sakai touched his daughter's head. The smile on his face and his round body looked like a Santa Claus preparing to deliver gifts.
The reason why he suggested publishing an article was because of this requirement - to give his daughter the right to authorize an important article.
Although minors publish heavyweight papers, they are rare, but they occur every year.
The University of Tokyo, a super-prestigious school that is ranked number one in Asia all year round, has many students with three or four SCIs in its annual admissions interviews; people who went to the Malaysian Observatory to discover an asteroid during their summer vacation; people who are Japanese Patent Office [A] level patent] holder’s...
Many of these people have papers written by parents who are engaged in scientific research, and then have their children's names on them.
The Japanese academic circle is highly closed, and everyone turns a blind eye.
Of course, there are also some who are truly awesome.
At Katsuko Sakai's age, for art students, the awards they can win have long been limited.
But a high-quality paper still has a very different meaning.
Among the major countries in East Asia, it is indeed rare for women in Japan and South Korea to have such a low social status.
It's not even as good as Myanmar at this point.
In the past traditional Japanese culture, the positioning of women's education still remained on becoming a good wife and a qualified mother.
Whether she is a qualified woman is more important than whether she is talented or learned.
Chizuru Ueno, a professor at Tokyo University, once angrily criticized at the opening ceremony of Tokyo University in 2019 - Society's discipline for girls is that women can perfectly complete housework and childcare while maintaining perfect beauty and youth. Mission, this is Japanese society.
At its peak, more than half of Japanese girls would become qualified housewives according to tradition, regardless of whether their careers were successful or not.
Even a diva like Momoe Yamaguchi is no exception.
Painters and singers alike,
In fact, no matter how good my daughter Katsuko Sakai is in painting, as long as she develops in Japan, she will naturally be at a disadvantage in social relations in the future.
But the identity of a scholar is different.
A heavyweight paper is the key to her breaking away from the shackles of fate.
Although there are few female scholars in Japanese universities, their status is very high.
If women can become tenured professors, society will simply regard them as gods.
It’s true that wherever you go, someone will bow to you out of respect.
Especially female scholars who have published outstanding papers in the field of art are almost the best way out for girls, which is both noble and honorable.
Even the eldest princess of Japan’s current Reiwa royal family has chosen to become an art scholar and female doctor at the Tokyo Museum.
When Gu Weijing expressed his guess about this painting.
Uncle Sakai knew immediately that a perfect opportunity awaited his daughter Katsuko Sakai.
Under normal circumstances, when Sakai Katsuko publishes a paper at his age, people will always question the independence and originality of this article.
My father is a great artist, which has advantages and disadvantages.
To put it bluntly, some people will definitely gossip and think that this professional paper was not written by Katsuko Sakai herself.
However, in this situation now, there are much less worries.
In the thesis written by two young people, the origin of the paintings is clear and the content of the article is not too complicated.
Not only was there no question of someone else writing the paper for me, it was actually a good talk.
At least the papers published by those "genius" high school students who use their "after school time" to do chemical experiments in the laboratory named by their father are more convincing.
…
The other side of the earth.
For a long time, the city of Glitz has been the Austrians’ private garden.
There are many museums and art galleries here, but unlike Vienna, which is crowded with international tourists, life is calm and indifferent.
Starting from Castle Hill, the highest point in the city, heading east, past the Baroque Mausoleum of Ferdinand II, between the Gleze Art Museum and the Opera House with a golden statue, there is a small building with a blue roof and red brick walls. .
This is the headquarters of "Oil Painting" magazine.
The ancestors of the Jelena family bought the building from the Austro-Hungarian government in the 19th century.
In the next two hundred years, whether in turmoil or peace, the world's artistic trends revolved around it.
The citizens of Gleze are also proud of Oil Painting magazine and the art-loving Irina family.
It is said that any member of the Elena family can dine in cafes in the city for free, and any door in the city is willing to be open for them.
Even in the council chambers of city hall, they may have access by virtue of their surname.
But today,
For the first time in the past hundred years, the last heiress of the Elena family was rejected by Oil Painting magazine.
"Miss Elena, I'm sorry, I don't know what happened, but your work permit has been suspended."
Just now, Anna discovered that her office ID could not open the elevator door.
This VIP-style elevator is exclusive to the upper echelons of the magazine and requires a corresponding permission card to unlock it.
Originally she thought the system was malfunctioning.
The nurse aunt pushed her wheelchair to the front of the counter. The concierge lady took her work ID and fiddled with the computer card reader for a while, then said with a confused look on her face.
"The file shows that you have been temporarily removed from the archive since yesterday afternoon."
"This is ridiculous, today is April Fool's Day. Miss Elena's family founded this magazine, and she is the owner of this magazine. Who has the right to kick the owner out of the house?"
The nurse pushing the wheelchair had some disbelief on her face.
Anna waved her hand.
In principle, she does not actually own the magazine.
In the 1960s, in order to make the magazine more professional and public, Anna's great-grandfather transferred 80% of the magazine's shares to the Austrian National Publishing Group and the European Art Association for 1 Austrian shilling. .
When Anna took over the family business, she was still the magazine's largest private shareholder.
But the head of the magazine is Sir Brown from Denmark, the chairman appointed by the European Art Association.
Her only official status in the magazine is as a senior editor and freelance writer for the visual arts section of Oil Painting magazine.
If the management didn't like Anna, they could fire an editor.
"Is this... aimed at me?"
Anna knew that the magazine had been in trouble in recent years, especially after the death of her aunt.
The new generation of management is often dissatisfied with the fact that "Oil Painting" magazine has too many personal imprints belonging to the old-time Irina family.
It's just that everyone's friction usually happens in secret, and on the surface they are at least on good terms with each other.
This was the first time that something like this was blatantly directed at him.
Anna took out her mobile phone from the pocket of her gray women's suit and dialed a number in her address book.
There was a long beep, but no one answered.
She hung up the phone with an expressionless face and clicked replay again... until she played the phone number for the third time. This time, the call finally got through.
"Chairman Brown, I would like to make an appointment for a meeting... No, I am not asking for your opinion. I am informing you to arrange a meeting. As a private shareholder, this is my right."
Ten minutes later, on the top floor of the headquarters of "Oil Painting" magazine, in the office of the chairman.
"Welcome, my boy. Tea? Coffee?"
Sir Brown is seventy years old this year, but he is very energetic. He has a small white Shanyang beard on his chin, but his hair has been dyed thinly, and there is no trace of gray hair in sight.
He looked very kind. He didn't look like a professional manager, but more like a kind old professor in school.
"Would you like some candied cherries from the Philippines? It suits my taste."
Sir Brown pushed a small silver preserved fruit box towards the opposite side of the desk: "Sorry, regarding the work permit, I planned to go to the Elena Manor tomorrow to explain the magazine's decision to you in person."
"You want to fire me?"
Anna asked coldly.
"Of course not. Who can fire a lady named Elena here?"
Sir Brown smiled a little sarcastically.
As the current head of the magazine, he doesn't like Anna's influence in the magazine.
But he was still unwilling to fire the last heir of the Elena family.
This is a huge scandal for both parties.
"It's just that we need to have a necessary conversation, and you know that our magazine has been in a bit of trouble lately."
Sir Brown handed over some newspapers.
"Although those media reports are nonsense, but... we still have to consider the negative impact it has caused."
Anna took the newspapers and magazines and flipped through them casually.
The first one is the front page news of "THE MOON" that I once saw.
"Since the reports are all nonsense, then why bother... Besides, we are not politicians, so when do we need to care about reports from vulgar newspapers like The Moon?"
Anna looked directly into Sir Brown's eyes: "Is there anything else I don't know?"
"Now that we're talking about it...honestly, yes."
Sir Brown shrugged.
"I have received word that DeJon Vandoorne does not want his name to appear in the same art review guide as an Internet illustrator whose...his words are 'a monkey wielding a paintbrush.' We think this is an insult to him, and if we don’t cancel his account, we will contact a lawyer to sue the magazine.”
"Then cancel his [Buyer's Guide]. Does Oil Painting Magazine need to pay attention to the threat of an insignificant old gangster who can only draw some empty lines that madmen babble about?" Anna did not flinch.
"Son, before you jump to conclusions, I suggest you take a look at this."
Sir Brown handed over a fax of a document.
Ana took the document and glanced at the two lines, her face as cold as ice.
The file is actually not long.
The content is nothing more than accusing "Oil Painting" magazine of actually going so low as to hire an inexperienced girl like her to rely on her family name to become an art critic, and allowing a small artist like an online comic illustrator who is not elegant to be published. Go to the serious painter recommendation column.
The person who wrote this fax said that he believed that Oil Painting magazine had lost its professionalism and hoped that he could withdraw from the buyer recommendation of Oil Painting magazine.
But Van Dorn is not the only one with signatures behind his back.
A total of seventeen well-known painters were included, headed by Van Dorn.
Van Doorn has a wide network in the art circle. Many of these names are Van Doorn's close friends, and some of them are because the paintings were criticized by Anna in a bitter tone in her past art reviews. A guy who holds a grudge because of this.
At this time, they also seized the opportunity of hot public opinion and jumped out to sign a joint name.
Van Dorn may really be an old gangster, but his connections are unquestionable.
He himself is by no means insignificant as Anna said. These seventeen names put together would make even the top management of "Oil Painting" magazine feel embarrassed.
"This is a forced abortion. They don't really want to quit Oil Painting magazine, they are just demonstrating. An art criticism institution compromises with artists. If this happens once, it will happen again."
Anna shook her head.
"And I stick to my point of view. The lady who detects the cat is an excellent painter. Her painting level and artistic accomplishment are enough to meet the standards of being published in Oil Painting magazine."
She was unwilling to compromise at all: "Detective Cat..."
"Maybe, kid."
Sir Brown's tone became impatient: "You haven't understood what I'm talking about, Anna. Detective cat? Oh, maybe she is enough, maybe she is not enough, it doesn't matter. People can't live in the art world forever, today The topics we discuss have nothing to do with art, only reality.”
"The reality is that your behavior caused a public relations crisis for Oil Painting magazine."
"In view of the public opinion online, I have asked our editorial department to withdraw the buyer recommendation on Detective Cat."
Sir Brown said in a polite but unacceptable tone.
He continued: "And I need you to write a formal apology letter to Mr. Vandoorne to gain his understanding."
(End of chapter)
