Volume 1: A sound on Wall Street, Xinxiang City is busy copying books Chapter 32: Fell Asleep
Subtitle of this chapter: Invincible mouth cannon, legendary life.
Xu and He looked at each other and found that each had a strange expression on his face. They were all economists by training. In fact, anyone who has written a paper or academic work knows that the shorter and simpler the title of the work, the longer and more complicated it will be to write. So most people would never use "Socialism" as the title of their paper, because it means that they have to cover all aspects of this big question. It's like people who study Chinese will not use "Tang Poetry", people who study biology will not use "Seeds", and people who study psychology will not use "Abnormality"...
In fact, a doctoral dissertation does not need to be this high. For example, He Lian, who received his PhD from Yale University in 1925, wrote “only” a comparative study of the income tax collection process of modern state administrative agencies.
The concept of income tax is too small compared to socialism, not to mention that it is only a collection process without elaborating on other aspects; it also limits the modern state administrative agencies; and finally, it is just a "comparative study."
The ridiculous title of Yuan Yanshu's doctoral thesis actually aroused the curiosity of both Xu Zhimo and He Lian, but their curiosity was in different directions.
Xu Zhimo always felt that Master Yuan was injured while trying to save him, but he became very strange after suffering a brain injury.
At first, he seemed to have depression. He either lay in bed or collapsed on the sofa all day, and smoked two packs of cigarettes a day... In fact, how could anyone really accept time travel immediately? Especially a time traveler like Yuan Yanshu who didn't have to fight to the death, didn't have to suffer from hunger and cold, and had plenty of time to adapt.
After more than a week, he finally regained some spirits, but the way he looked at people was always creepy, and he kept mumbling to himself...Traveling through PTSDWell, that's normal.
Xu Zhimo now saw that Yuan Yanshu, who used to be very careful about his appearance, was now unkempt and wearing pajamas to meet guests, and even forgot the date they had agreed on. It seemed that he had not recovered yet. That was why he wanted to read what Yuan Yanshu wrote to confirm whether this old man really had a problem with his brain.
Master He, who had never met Master Yuan before, wanted to see how Yuan Yanshu was talking nonsense. People are so strange. If it was just an ordinary doctoral thesis, an intellectual like He Lian would not read it privately. Instead, he knew it was nonsense, but he wanted to see a joke, which made him feel itchy.
So Xu Zhimo took the lead and reached out to pick up the manuscript...
He flipped through it briefly and found only the first volume, which was divided into three parts: "The Superiority of the Capitalist Mode of Production", "The Utilitarian Argument for Democracy" and "A Critique of the Socialist Family Politics".
This seems quite normal, but we still need to look at the content. However, Xu Zhimo was particularly interested in the third part because his master's thesis was "On the Status of Chinese Women".
However, from a strictly academic point of view, the quality of his paper is not very good. The content mainly talks about the literary accomplishment of ancient Chinese women and emphasizes the liberation of women after the Xinhai Revolution. It is possible that in order to save face in front of foreigners, his paper has many far-fetched and understated parts. For example, he mentioned the situation of killing female babies in China at that time, but insisted that it was not as serious as the missionaries said; and "child marriage (actually child bride)" was backward, but it actually played a role in protecting the lives of girls.
He glanced at He Lian who was very interested, and handed the first two parts to him tacitly. Then the two of them stood in front of the desk and read...
"Oh, more than half an hour has passed!" After finishing reading the third part, Xu Zhimo raised his wrist to look at his gold watch in annoyance and shouted loudly.
Master He, who was immersed in Master Yuan's work, also came to his senses and asked in surprise, "Why hasn't Mr. Yuan come out yet?"
The two looked at each other, put down the manuscripts in their hands, forgot to knock on the door, and rushed directly into the bathroom...
"Snort, snore, snore..."
They found Yuan Yanshu snoring . He actually fell asleep!
Is it easy to be a master? It is easy to say it is easy and it is not easy to say it is not easy. In fact, it depends on the category.
Anyone who has participated in a formal paper defense will know that plagiarizing academic works is really not that simple. It is not like literary works where you can plagiarize three or fourCome on, even if my dad writes for me, it won’t work.
Student, your paragraph is very similar to XXX's argument in "XXX". Did you quote it or derive it yourself? If you quoted it, why didn't you indicate the source? If you derived it yourself, please briefly describe the derivation process.
Academic plagiarists are stunned: …
The literary plagiarist is justified: Do you know how hard I work?
The idiot plagiarist was furious: "Your last name is Fang? Do you like eating pork elbows? Do you believe I will give you one?"
Yuan Yanshu must have worked very hard to copy. Although Socialism is famous in later generations, it is enough for an economist who is interested in a distinctive socialist society to know that there is such a book and what is written in it. Who would read the works of "outdated reactionary scholars" from beginning to end? If you really want to compete with neoclassical liberalism, you have to read his student Hayek.
There was no other way. As his doctoral thesis, he had to read the book from the beginning to figure out the meaning and origin of every word and sentence in it. In particular, he had to make original revisions to some overly reactionary content. This was equivalent to him writing a book called "I'll Take You to Read Mises". However, if this book really existed, in addition to being collected by various libraries, it would be a blessing if it could sell for three-digit prices.
And fortunately, he discovered a very, very, very important function of the Master Ball system, which is that it can be used as a search engine. As long as Yuan Yanshu has keywords for all the works published before the current time point, he can use the Master Ball as a universal search engine. This saved him the effort of going to the library. Otherwise, even if the "Socialism" provided by the Master Ball system has an index, he still has to find the original text to know what is written in the context, right?
After being awakened by the two of them, ten minutes later, Yuan Yan, who had shaved, taken a shower and changed his clothes, finally opened the door and walked out refreshed.
As if they had made an appointment, Xu Zhimo and He Lian stepped forward at the same time and said in unison: "Brother Hongjian, I think your opinion is biased..."
Yuan Yan suddenly raised his hands and made a gesture of surrender, saying, "My two brothers, you have to come one by one."
Xu and He gave way to each other for a while, but in the end, Master He, a visitor from afar, won the first place. Neither of them knew that they were actually witnessing history. Master Yuan Yanshu's legendary life of being invincible in his mouth finally kicked off after Chapter 22.
