"Yang Rui not only teaches classes at Tsinghua University, he also has a temporary office. The conditions for the temporary office are very good." President Liu recalled his office and said, "It is a little smaller than my office, but it is very warm and the space is not small. There is a large window and a small flower bed in front of the door."

President Liu gestured in Professor Cai's office and said, "Yang Rui set up an office desk, a chair, a bookshelf, and a camp bed. There were many empty spaces in the middle of the room. Oh, there was a stove in the middle, and there were a few chairs around him. He also roasted beef with a stove, saying that the fire barbecue was better, and the seasonings were all alive and put in a small bottle..."

Under Dean Liu's vivid description, Professor Cai instantly formed the scene of Yang Rui's temporary office in his mind: a small office, but a comfortable office... an office that can barbecue meat.

"What about the ion channel laboratory? The conditions in the ion channel laboratory are not bad. Isn't Yang Rui working inside?"

"I think maybe Tsinghua's temporary office is quieter. It looks quite suitable for writing."

Professor Cai originally wanted to say that the ion channel laboratory is also very quiet, but now it is expanding to a scale of nearly 30 people, so he can't say that. He is also the director of the laboratory, but Professor Cai knows what it looks like when several experimental groups get busy. If the boss is in the laboratory, people will keep asking about it.

This is how the work in the laboratory is. It requires the boss's participation in everything in detail. Many times, Professor Cai has to operate the microscope himself or pick up the pipette.

It is not impossible to be a hand-off manager, but the progress of the laboratory is often lagging behind. If the deputy in the laboratory is able to compete alone in other laboratories or reach the level of a laboratory director, most of them will have to go out independently. In the laboratory, the life goal of the most research researchers and head dogs is not to contribute to the laboratory. Their goal of working hard in the laboratory is to try their best to learn more knowledge and methods so that one day they can have their own laboratory. Therefore, when the laboratory director appears in the laboratory, the research researchers will release the questions accumulated over the years.

At this time, the job of the laboratory director is to answer various questions, just like giving "Jianwang a salary. The laboratory leader who has not appeared in the laboratory for a long time is like a contractor who has been owed wages for a long time. Not only is it unpopular, but it also has moral concerns.

Of course, frequent appearance in the laboratory does not mean that you will stay in the laboratory forever. Professor Cai has his own office outside the laboratory, and when he wants to do administrative work, he will come here.

"Let's find an office for Yang Rui too? Are there any rooms in the building?" Professor Cai asked.

"How could it be?" Dean Liu shook his head and said, "There are no more offices now. Besides, it's a bit unreasonable. Tsinghua University gives temporary offices. If you use them temporarily, no one can say anything. Besides, Yang Rui has no laboratory in Tsinghua University, so we have assigned a laboratory. If you reassign an office, it will definitely not be appropriate."

“This is a trouble.”

"Yes... If another teacher comes to me for an office, I will definitely say I will try my best to overcome it, but Yang Rui did not ask for the office." Dean Liu's expression was helpless. Giving things to others is always the most troublesome.

Professor Cai pondered for a moment, but did not continue the topic, and asked, "How is Yang Rui's writing? How many chapters have he written?"

"A dozen chapters, because it is in English, I didn't read the manuscript carefully. You know, I read English articles very slowly and tired..." Academician Liu said and smiled.

Professor Cai narrowed his eyes: "Is the Genomics you see in English?"

"right."

"Genomics is what he taught... He wrote this book based on his lesson plan. He must have used Chinese when he taught."

"Of course, of course it's Chinese." Dean Liu replied.

"So, he wrote the Chinese lesson plan and sorted out an English one?" Professor Cai's logic was very clear.

President Liu also noticed the problem and hesitated, "It's probably the case... I saw the English version on his desk, and didn't think much about it. I also asked our Peking University publisher to help him publish the lecture notes. Then, Yang Rui said that he had contacted the publisher and wanted to wait for their news first." President Liu paused and said, "I contacted Tsinghua friends, Yang Rui did not publish it at Tsinghua."

"Of course he won't publish it at Tsinghua University, he wants to publish it abroad." As a senior scholar, Professor Cai can understand Yang Rui's ideas very well.

The monographs published in third world countries are not concerned about the mainstream academic community in the world.

It is like a monograph published in Arabic by a famous Egyptian scholar. Unless it is an ethnological work, there will be no professors from Cambridge or Stanford to read it. If you don’t have the conditions to read it, you will naturally be destroyed by everyone.

Therefore, in this world where English is dominant in the world, papers must be published in English journals, and monographs must be published in English-speaking countries in English in order to receive widespread attention. The same principle applies to German before World War II and Latin in the Darwinian era.

The work of artificial synthesis of bovine insulin in China in the 1960s was published in one article in Chinese and one article in English, the Chinese was published in the Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics, and the English was published in the only Western liberal arts journal in China, "scientiasinina" (Science of China).

Only two countries in the world published a large number of papers in their own languages ​​after World War II - the Soviet Union and Japan. When the Soviet Union was the world's top, it was natural to say that Russian journals were finished. Japan is an alternative typical example. In the era of rapid development of Japan and in that era when the Japanese could not say that the Japanese could not, the level of papers in Japan was also very high, so that some scholars from English-speaking countries had to find someone to translate Japanese papers in the field where the Japanese had the upper hand.

It sounds very good, but reality will not surrender to the spirit. Sometimes, people think that reality will surrender, but soon, reality will bounce back quickly like a never-bent bamboo, hitting your face hard.

Entering the 21st century, the Japanese academic community that could not keep up with the times was even more recession than the economy. Although many Japanese still published papers in Japanese and were named patriotism by the Chinese, in the era of Japan's full field tightening, the influence of Japanese journals has become increasingly weaker. Japanese scholars in the new era have long begun to play one Japanese and one English-language, and are proud of English.

It turns out that unless China dominates all fields, it is like the United States in its heyday, and the sun never sets in its heyday empire, the reality is that English is still the common language on the earth. Writing papers and monographs in Chinese is like writing Tang poetry in Turkmen. Don’t want to get He Zhizhang’s praise.

However, the difference between writing a book in English and writing a paper in English is huge.

English papers are all in formats. Many Chinese scholars are not proficient in English and can still write qualified English papers, especially old-school scholars in the 1980s. Many people's spoken language is not even enough to chat. However, if you ask them to write papers, the predicate clauses of the attribution clauses are extremely skillful, and the standard language comes casually.

After all, the requirement of a paper is to explain things clearly. Except for the abnormal requirements of the two journals, Science and Nature, the other papers are just straightforward.

The requirement of writing a book is much more difficult than writing a paper to "Nature" and "Science". Even students in ordinary English-speaking countries may not be able to meet the changes between the lines.

President Liu said in a daze: "Is it OK to publish it abroad?"

"Yang Rui is a celebrity abroad. The national television network in the United States has reported him like our news broadcast." Professor Cai exclaimed and said: "He also conducted PCR and ion channel research. With such popularity and foundation, he has no obstacles to publishing his works abroad, and publishers may help him polish it."

However, Dean Liu did not expect this and not only said, "Do you think the content is enough to publish?"

"It's not that difficult to publish a book abroad, and few foreigners have book numbers." Professor Cai smiled and said, "However, whether you can sell it is another matter."

"You have to buy it from a school." Dean Liu understood and said, "It's quite risky to say that."

Professor Cai nodded. The way foreign universities buy textbooks is similar and different from that in China. Basically, each school decides which textbook to adopt. If it is a school where professors run the school, it is naturally the professor who decides which textbook to purchase. Some professors will adopt their own textbooks, but not every professor has written works in every field. Therefore, most of the time, the famous works of famous professors are the highlights of university textbooks.

In some not very broad fields, and even some textbooks taught by some professors, they will have a monopoly effect.

However, as a relatively niche reading material, even if it becomes a textbook, the sales volume of academic monographs will not be too large. 600 or 1,200 books can be called a best-seller. If it is not a textbook, its annual sales are often less than 100 books because the price of books is very expensive. Most people in the great American Republic do not like reading books, and they will not read academic monographs.

Buying less means making less money, and making less means publishing is worthless.

President Liu understood the relationship and couldn't help but worry: "Why did Yang Rui always choose such a difficult option?"

"He is still young, and young people are always confident." Professor Cai is quite understandable. If he has the conditions, he also wants to publish a journal abroad.

"Can we help this?"

"It is okay to contact one or two people, but we can't decide." Professor Cai is a member of the academician of the Academy of Sciences, but Chinese academicians can only influence one acre and three-point land in China. This is true for the so-called fourth-level scholars.

As he spoke, Professor Cai became unbearable and said, "I have time tomorrow, so I'll go and read the book written by Yang Rui."

"He'll be at Tsinghua tomorrow."

"We'll have lunch tomorrow, ride a bike over to see it. I'll draw out for two hours and wait until three o'clock in the afternoon before going to the laboratory." Professor Cai made the decision and wrote down the project on the calendar in front of his desk.

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Chapter completed!