Shaw is a famous British realist dramatist.

In the early years of the Republic of China, Western dramatists who had a significant impact on Chinese drama were Ibsen and Shaw. Their works exposed social realities and criticized current problems, and were widely welcomed by the audience.

This kind of drama is called a social problem drama.

For example, Ibsen's "Doll House" and Bernard Shaw's "Madam Warren's Profession" were both staged on the Chinese drama stage, and Chinese social issues dramas are probably from this.

Hong Shen, who studied drama at Harvard University in the United States, is one of Shaw's followers.

Shaw is also a politician, a famous British socialist activist and political commentator.

Shaw joined the Fabian Society in 1884, advocating the use of gradual and slight improvements to change the capitalist system and oppose violent revolution. He was one of the important leaders of the Fabian Society.

Fabianism is a gradual socialism that advocates class cooperation, social peace, and opposes proletarian revolution and dictatorship.

Although they are all socialism, unlike the violent revolution in the Soviet Union, they tend to establish political parties, gain ruling power through democratic elections, promote nationalization, and gradually realize socialism.

This method is similar to the bourgeois reformists in China, but the ultimate goal of Fabianism is to achieve socialism.

Fabian Socialists helped to form the British Labor Party.

The British Labor Party was established on February 27, 1900 and is called the Labor Representative Committee. It is one of the ruling parties in the UK and takes turns to rule with the British Conservative Party. The traditional theoretical basis of the Labor Party’s program is Fabian Socialism.

In 1925, Britain was in power as the Conservative Party, and the Labor Party belonged to the opposition.

It was the Labor Party who took advantage of the chaos in China that accused the British Conservative Party of China of making mistakes in foreign policy and promoted Lin Zixuan's speech through the media. The meeting between Lin Zixuan and Shaw was also out of political considerations.

They believe that this will increase the influence of this incident and attract the attention of the British people.

Lin Zixuan didn't know what Shaw was thinking. Perhaps this British dramatist was very sympathetic about what happened in China with a humanitarian spirit.

On June 5, 1925, international people such as Bernard Shaw, Zetkin and others organized a relief association to aid the May 30th Massacre and the wave of opposing imperialism occurred in China.

Lin Zixuan is respectful to those foreigners who have supported and helped China.

He received an invitation from Shaw to visit Shaw's residence in London. The gift he brought to Shaw was a series of Chinese New Literature books.

He always keeps promoting Chinese culture and is very responsible.

This year, Shaw was nearly seventy years old, but he was in good spirits and had a funny conversation.

He was once a speaker and lived on speeches for 12 years.

Shaw was very concerned about what happened in the Far East, including the violent revolution that broke out in the Soviet Union. He also knew that the Soviet Union was cooperating with some Chinese forces.

He was quite interested in the Soviet Union and had plans to visit it, wanting to see what a socialist country looked like.

Most of the two talked about this kind of topic, but as for literature, they didn't talk about anything.

Lin Zixuan expressed his gratitude to Shaw for supporting China's actions to resist imperialism, and focused on introducing the major social changes that are emerging in China. The entire nation is awakening and the resistance force in the future will become stronger and stronger.

"So will China embark on the Soviet Union?" Shaw thought for a moment and asked.

"If other roads cannot be understood, I think it will." Lin Zixuan replied.

Shaw smiled and said nothing. He did not agree with the violent revolution, but knew that the specific situation of each country was different.

In the UK, it is feasible to obtain ruling power through democratic elections to carry out social reforms, but it may not work in other countries. This is a realistic problem.

"Why do you want to write novels with Western background?" Later, Shaw asked with interest.

"Because Western readers don't like to read Eastern-style novels." Lin Zixuan replied, "Only by writing Western-style novels and allowing Western readers to understand me can they accept the Eastern-style novels I wrote."

"It's a fun way," Shaw commented.

The conversation between the two was relatively relaxed, and Shaw controlled the rhythm of the conversation well. Lin Zixuan spent most of his time answering.

At this moment, someone came over with a telegram and announced the good news to Shaw.

The telegram came from the Swedish Academy of Literature, and the Nobel Committee notified Shaw that he won the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Shaw's award-winning work is the large-scale historical drama "Joan of Arc", which he wrote in 2019.

In the British literary critics circle, many critics believe that Shaw has passed the glorious period of his creation and has come to an end.

The glorious period of his creation was before World War I, and the dramas he created frequently failed afterwards.

"Joan of Arc" is generally considered an excellent drama and is a work that restored to its standards.

The reason why the Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to Shaw was "because his works full of idealism and humanity have a high degree of poetic beauty."

Lin Zixuan stood up and congratulated Shaw. This is a very high honor in the literary world.

Norwegian dramatist Ibsen missed the Nobel Prize in Literature and often regretted it.

But Bernard Shaw smiled bitterly and shook his head at Lin Zixuan.

"They must be because I didn't write anything during this period and thought I wouldn't write good works in the future. This award is just a lifebuoy for those who have already crossed the sea of ​​suffering." He said self-deprecatingly.

Shaw seemed to think it was a consolation prize for him, similar to the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Lin Zixuan just got in touch with Bernard Shaw, but he didn't know his personality and couldn't tell whether this was his true thoughts.

However, in the following days, there were rumors that Shaw refused to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

This incident caused quite a stir in the UK.

Since its award in 1901, the Nobel Prize has become an influential award worldwide. It is not only an individual award, but also an honor for the country.

As a result, British media expressed their opinions on this matter.

Some people think that Bernard Shaw pretends to be noble, some people think that Bernard Shaw is indifferent to fame and fortune, and some people persuade Bernard Shaw not to be so stubborn, and should give up this idea and go to receive the award.

His relatives and friends also persuaded him, and even the British royal family came forward to mediate, which was a huge controversy.

Lin Zixuan thought about the desire of Chinese people for the Nobel Prize in later generations, which is actually similar in Western society. After all, this is a global honor, and few people can refuse it.

In fact, Shaw finally went to Sweden to attend the award ceremony and received the certificate.

But after he got it back, he hung the certificate in the least conspicuous corner on the wall of the house.
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