Lin Zixuan wrote letters to twenty famous domestic writers, and their attitudes were very interesting.

Cai Yuanqi strongly agreed, believing that participating in such international organizations will help enhance China's international image and allow Chinese literature and world literature to communicate with each other.

During his time as the president of Peking University, he kept inviting famous foreign scholars to teach at Peking University.

The purpose is to promote the exchange and exhibition of Chinese and Western cultures.

Members of the International Pen Association are not necessarily orthodox writers, including not only novelists, essayists, dramatists and poets, but also literary critics, translators, journalists and editors who are engaged in literary work.

Of course, if you have outstanding talents in this industry, you can join.

Cai Yuanqi is engaged in academic research and has published many academic works, so he is naturally qualified to become a member.

The most important thing is that Cai Yuanqi has a high status in the Chinese cultural circle. It can be said that he is highly respected. Even Hu Shi and Lu Xun are half short in front of him.

Lin Zixuan is also influential and is in the limelight in the domestic literary world, but he is still a junior.

When you see seniors like Liang Qichao and Cai Yuanqi, you should be respectful. This has nothing to do with your status. This is a Chinese tradition.

In academic terms, everyone can argue, for example, in Redology, Hu Shi and Lin Zixuan refuted Cai Yuan’s compensation, which is normal.

But etiquette and respect cannot be abandoned, this is the basic principle of being a human being.

Cai Yuanqi is not only the president of Peking University, but also the honorary president of many universities. He is a well-deserved first in the education industry.

If the China Pen Club Center is established, then the president's position must be Cai Yuan's compensation. Only after Cai Yuan compensates and gives in, Hu Shi and others will be the turn of Lin Zixuan.

The attitudes of the Zhou brothers are different.

Zhou Zuoren agreed, thinking that this would improve the level of Chinese new literature.

Since the May Fourth Movement, new literature has taken two paths.

One way is to imitate and learn from foreign literature. Zhou Zuoren's sketches contain the shadow of Japanese literature. He put the aesthetic principles of "thorrow" and "desolate mystery" in Japanese literature just right.

Xu Zhimo's poems were influenced by British romantic poetry and had traces of imitating Shelley and Keats.

Literature means absorbing the essence from the works of predecessors and forming one's own things, so there is nothing to write about when drawing on foreign literature.

Another way is to innovate based on Chinese traditional culture.

The reason why Luxun's novels are valued is that he has embarked on a new literary path and demonstrated the style of Chinese society in this era by describing rural areas and farmers.

Shen Congwen is the same. Unlike Luxun, he has love and pity for farmers, rather than anger and criticism.

At this time, Luxun received a job from Xiamen University and was about to take Xu Guangping to leave Peking and go to Xiamen.

He politely declined Lin Zixuan's invitation, believing that his talents were insufficient and he might not be able to do it.

This is because he is humble. Luxun’s collection of novels will be published soon. Most of the novels in the newspapers have been expressed. In the Chinese literary world, he is considered a first-class writer.

Perhaps it was because of his concern for Lin Zixuan, or perhaps it was because of his vigilance against the Western Organization of the International Pen Association.

Luxun refused to join the China Pen Club Center.

In Guangzhou, the founders of Creation Society also face choices.

In March 1926, Guo Moruo and Yu Dafu went to Guangzhou together and entered the National Guangdong University to teach. Later, Guo Moruo joined the army and entered the Whampoa Military Academy to do propaganda work. Yu Dafu still taught in the university.

Yu Dafu had no problem and agreed to join, while Guo Moruo was struggling.

He didn't expect Lin Zixuan to invite him. This incident is well known in the Chinese literary circle. Many people are rushing to join, and it is rare to have an opportunity.

The International Pen Association is an international writers’ organization, and joining it can enhance your influence.

But he had already believed in Marxism during this period and was actively applying to join the organization, and was in the stage of being investigated by the organization. Whether to join the pen club needs to be carefully considered.

Finally, he asked the organization for instructions. After thinking about it, the organization approved Guo Moruo's request to join the China Pen Club Center.

The organization believes that this will help to have its own voice in the Chinese Pen Club Center, which cannot be monopolized by bourgeois liberal writers. It should show its energy internationally.

In this way, members of the Creation Society joined in.

Compared with the Creation Society, the members of the Literary Research Society are more complex. They are divided into different small groups according to their different political tendencies. Some want to be free and some are keen on social activities.

Lin Zixuan invited Zheng Zhenduo, Shen Yanbing and others.

In Lin Zixuan's mind, the Center of the Chinese Pen Club is not his private area and back garden, but an organization that can truly reflect the group of Chinese writers in this era, and can fully display the appearance of Chinese literature.

Therefore, when he offered an invitation, he only looked at his writing talent and not his political tendencies.

Due to his criticism of the Soviet Union, he and many members of the Literary Research Association had fierce verbal wars.

Zheng Zhenduo was willing to join, but Shen Yanbing refused.

The Crescent Society and the Modern Commentary School in Peking strongly support Lin Zixuan, and Xu Zhimo and Wen Yiduo are among them.

As for female writers, Lin Zixuan invited Bingxin, who had just come from the UK, and Chen Hengzhe, the first female professor in China.

Among the writers of new literature, Bing Xin became famous earlier and began to publish articles in 1919.

But Chen Hengzhe is even more powerful.

In 1917, she wrote her first novel in vernacular Chinese in the United States for one day, reflecting the life of American women's college freshmen in a day, and was presented in the quarterly report of students studying in the United States.

Many critics believe that this is China's first vernacular novel, which is earlier than Luxun's 1918 diary.

Of course, her novels cannot be compared with the Madman's Diary in the sense.

Therefore, the Chinese literary critics still regard Lu Xun's madman's diary as China's first vernacular novel.

Chen Hengzhe's talent is not only in novels, but also in academics. She has written works such as the history of the Renaissance and Western history.

In 1943, she met the later Premier Zhou.

Premier Zhou said respectfully and enthusiastically: Mr. Chen, I am your student, I have listened to your classes and read yours.

It can be seen that she has influence in the Chinese academic community.

In such a huge Chinese literary world, it is too easy to get two famous writers. Even if someone refuses, he can find a substitute. Many people want to join.

Lin Zixuan made an explanation that this was only the first batch.

When the International Pen Association recognizes the China Pen Association Center and recruits more members, everyone will have the opportunity.

The next work is to organize the personal information and works of these twenty people, translate them into English and hand them over to the International Pen Association for review. After passing, they will be voted at the next International Pen Association meeting.

Lin Zixuan felt that the problem was not big.

The International Pen Association should want to expand its influence in the world, otherwise it would not invite him to join.

Lin Zixuan doesn't need to do these trivial matters by himself. His subordinates will prepare everything. What he has to consider is whether to set up a literary award in China and select literary works once a year.

Just like the Luxun Literature Award and the Contradictory Literature Award in later generations. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!