On October 8, 2019, Shanghai Shiliupu Wharf.

A passenger ship from Japan sailed into the dock, and from it came out were scarred Chinese workers, who were Chinese who survived the Great Earthquake in Japan.

These Chinese workers walked onto the wharf and couldn't help crying, which made the Wenzhou fellow villagers who welcomed them at the wharf and were shocked.

As a result, the news that Japan took the opportunity to harm Chinese workers during the earthquake was made public, and public opinion was in an uproar.

Thinking about the situation where all sectors of Shanghai actively raised funds for Japan at that time, and the sensational reports from the news media at that time, the slap hit the Chinese in the face.

On October 18, Zhang Yuanjie, the Chinese agent in Japan, came to Shanghai and brought a Japanese relief group to thank China for its donations to Japan.

A Shanghai reporter questioned the Japanese representative about the murder of Chinese workers. Zhang Yuanjie also exonerated Japan, while the Japanese representative denied it.

After the confrontation at the thank-you meeting was reported, the news media was greatly stimulated. The craze for anti-earth and aid to Japan changed to protesting the massacre of Chinese workers in Japan, accusing Japan of being completely destroyed.

Japan first refused to admit this, and then admitted that it was just a man-kill: the Koreans rioted during the earthquake, and the crowd was angry and accidentally injured the Chinese.

Moreover, the Japanese government has imposed a blockade of domestic news and does not allow newspapers to report such news.

In Shanghai, many people recalled Lin Zixuan's abnormal behavior and could not help but guess whether Lin Zixuan had expected this situation to happen and then made such a sudden move.

The people around Lin Zixuan asked this question, but he did not answer.

What else is there to say about Japan? Even if such a thing happens, many Chinese officials have exonerated Japan, believing that this is just a misunderstanding. China and Japan are friendly neighbors, so they should not affect diplomatic relations.

He really has nothing to say about such a country.

At this time, Pearl Buck sent the translated "Watchman in the Rye" to Lin Zixuan.

Lin Zixuan looked at it. Pearl Buck's translation basically conforms to the original meaning. Perhaps because he is a woman, the words are more elegant, which slightly weakens the sarcastic spirit of this novel.

Although the protagonist in her works still looks careless, there are more sad things.

Translation is often a process of re-creation, and it is by no means a copy. It is not a good translator. As long as it can accurately express the spirit of the original work, appropriate statement adjustments are allowed to exist.

Moreover, translated works often bring traces of translators, and the translator's own things are integrated into them.

Lin Zixuan is not opposed to this. He does not have to restore the original work, so it doesn’t make much sense.

In literary creation, there is actually no distinction between writers of the same level, but they are different in terms of subject matter or areas of expertise. Perhaps Pearl Buck's version of "Watchman in the Rye" is even more outstanding.

He sent the novel to Peterson, a lawyer from the United States, and asked him to find a publisher to publish it on his behalf.

There are also several comics sent out with this novel. The protagonist of the comic is Clark Kent, and he also has a name called Superman.

In history, "Superman" appeared in 1938 and was published in the first issue of "Action Comics".

"Superman" creators Siegel and Schuster are middle school classmates, both of whom are science fiction fans.

They had run their own publications in school and wrote a story called "Superman Empire" and told the story of an extremely smart bald professor who did evil with his mind.

A company expressed interest in their works, so they created a complete story of a brand new story.

That is the prototype of modern superman: alien destruction, orphan escape, and coming to the United States, he has the amazing ability to fight to protect ordinary people...

They named the story "Superman".

However, in the following years no publisher was interested in their works, and they were poor.

In 1938, their comics received the attention of the National United Publishing Company, a new comic company and the predecessor of the DC Comics Company.

So, Superman was published in Action Comics, and Siegel and Schuster sold the copyright to the company for $130.

I have to say that this is no different from giving it for free.

But no one expected that it was this book "Superman" that brought about the golden age of American comics.

Lin Zixuan naturally would not make such a mistake. He understood how much profit "Superman" made later. Therefore, the copyright of this comic must be in his hands.

He sent it to lawyer Peterson to publish it in the United States. Even if it is published at your own expense, it doesn't matter, but he will never sell copyright.

He watched an American drama in later generations called "Superman Prequel", which tells in detail the process of Superman's growth.

Lin Zixuan wrote a script for this comic and introduced the settings of the entire comic, including Krypton born by Superman, the environment in which Superman grew up on Earth, his friends and enemies, etc.

The executor is three students he brought from the Academy of Fine Arts.

At present, there is no need to think about the Japanese market. It will take at least a few years for Japan to restore its economy, so it can only enter the US market.

The only problem is that none of these three people have been to the United States. The United States they first painted was full of shadows of Shanghai.

So, Lin Zixuan asked them to spend a month watching American movies in the cinema and write down what the United States looks like.

These three people were very excited. The boss paid for the money to watch a movie. Where can I find such a good thing?

But after a month of continuous movie watching, they all felt so much that they were vomiting. In this era, there were not many American movies spread to Shanghai, and many of them were repeated screenings.

This is similar to the feeling of watching videos in a video hall for a month later.

By using this method, they finally understand what the United States looks like.

Lin Zixuan does not ask them to draw a real United States, it is just a comic, as long as it looks like the United States.

If Superman could become popular in the United States, he could publish comic characters such as Spider-Man, Batman, etc., so that all American superheroes can become made in China.

It’s not that he doesn’t want to start a comic company in the United States, but that Chinese people are not allowed to own industries in the United States.

In the face of this industry that may involve tens of billions of dollars, Lin Zixuan no one believes it.

If he asked lawyer Peterson to start a comic company and attribute the copyright of these comic characters to the comic company, he would have nothing in the future if there was a copyright dispute in the future.

So, he would rather be more secure than take risks.

Let Chinese-made comics invade the US market, Lin Zixuan thought with great enthusiasm.
Chapter completed!