Although George Bernard Shaw was beaten into submission by Zhou Hexuan, he was still very popular. Even scholars from the cultural circles came down from Peiping and Tianjin to visit him.
Arthur Henderson is relatively low-key and hangs out with Zhang Junmai all day long. The "national socialism" Zhang Junmai believes in is actually a kind of "progressive socialism". The two have similar political theories, so they get along extremely well.
Zhang Junmai founded the "Rebirth Society" (the predecessor of the National Socialist Party) in Peiping two years ago, which means "Rebuilding China". He is currently preparing to found the "National Socialist Party of China", following the line of the British Labor Party, so he consults his seniors every day for advice
experience.
Arthur Henderson said with emotion: "The line of progressive socialism is very difficult to follow. Even in the United Kingdom, which has a relatively complete political system, it took 20 years to become the ruling party. This political philosophy has seriously affected the capitalists
The interests of China will inevitably be counterattacked by the bourgeoisie, so now the British Labor Party has become the opposition party. According to my inspection these days, China’s political environment is very bad, and the progressive socialist line is more difficult to succeed than the British.”
"How did your party come to power back then?" Zhang Junmai asked.
Arthur Henderson said: "In the early days, it constantly promoted the political ideas of the Labor Party, won the support of the middle and lower classes, and gradually expanded its influence. The Labor Party came to power thanks to the European War (World War I), a country in this extraordinary period.
In the event of a war, the UK would often form a coalition cabinet. And we in the Labor Party support the government’s declaration of war against Germany, thus joining the Liberal Party’s coalition cabinet and expanding our power step by step.”
Zhang Junmai immediately realized: "I understand, if you want to be in power, you must first integrate into the government."
"Yes," Arthur Henderson said, "A party without government support will always be an opposition party and will never have the opportunity to express its ideas."
Zhang Junmai already knew in his heart that there would be a war between China and Japan. His National Socialist Party must use the future war to win the opportunity to participate in politics by supporting Chang Kaishen. Historically, he also did this. Unfortunately, Chang Kaishen's
His perverse behavior made him completely give up.
Zhang Junmai had enmity with Chiang Kai-shek. He currently has a lame leg thanks to Chang Kaishen. But in order to strengthen the National Socialist Party and realize his political views, he must choose to support Chang Kaishen in the future.
Zhang Junmai communicated harmoniously with Arthur Henderson, but Li Huang and others from Al-Shabaab avoided him because Arthur Henderson did not like Al-Shabaab's "nationalism" and thought it was too radical and lacked clarity.
ideas for governing the country.
When Arthur Henderson stayed in Nanjing for inspection, Bernard Shaw was invited by Mrs. Sun to Shanghai to carry out anti-Japanese propaganda activities. Every time Bernard Shaw gave a speech, he attracted countless students to listen. Leftists praised Bernard Shaw as "
International Saint of Pacifism”.
However, Bernard Shaw, the "saint", soon got tired of staying in China and took a boat trip to Japan. He claimed that he was going on an international inspection, but after living in Japan for a period of time, he praised the Japanese very much.
Orderliness and execution.
Zhou Hexuan was extremely disappointed with Chang Kaishen, so he simply ignored everything and wrote "Legend of the Galaxy Heroes" while traveling with Vivien Leigh and sent it to the UK.
At the end of October, this was Zhou Hexuan's last day in the south, and he would take Vivien Leigh to Tianjin in a few days.
Nanjing, Confucius Temple.
This area retains many traditional buildings of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Among these buildings is the Capital Grand Theater, an exquisite three-story reinforced concrete building.
The Capital Grand Theater was completed early last year, with more than 1,400 seats upstairs and downstairs. It is one of the largest in the country.
Because there was a Hollywood movie released today, Zhou Hexuan took Vivien Leigh to watch the movie. The two of them went outside the theater and stood on the street and saw two promotional posters, one for the Hollywood movie "Red Dust" and the other for the domestic movie
The film "Goddess".
"Red Dust" is the second work of Hollywood film emperor Clark Gable. It was only released in the United States a few months ago. Now it can be seen in Nanjing, which shows the strong overseas distribution capabilities of Hollywood.
In fact, as early as the 1920s, eight major American film companies, including MGM, Paramount, and Fox, had successively set up offices in Shanghai.
Since China had no independent tariffs at that time, American films only had to pay a very low import tariff when they were released in China. However, due to the Lijin system, domestic films were taxed during transportation and were taxed when they were screened in various places, resulting in domestically produced films.
The domestic distribution cost of the film is actually higher than that of American films.
Since the Nanjing National Government took back its tariff autonomy and abolished the lijin system, domestic films have rapidly prospered, which was something that could not be achieved during the Beiyang rule.
Zhou Hexuan held Vivien Leigh's hand and walked into the ticket room of the Capital Theater. He found that there were quite a lot of moviegoers and they had to wait in line slowly.
There is a magazine-like print in the box office, which is a theater magazine. It contains previews of new movies, movie descriptions, movie reviews, etc.
Zhou Hexuan is quite surprised that professional film critics have appeared these days. The new movie trailers in the theater journal are also written in great detail. For example, on a certain day of the month, a certain movie will be released, and the ticket price is very clearly written. Movie
The description is also very interesting. The cast and crew, synopsis of the story, and behind-the-scenes stories are all explained clearly, which greatly facilitates people's viewing of the movie.
For example, the film description of "The Goddess" focuses on the screenwriter Mr. Zhou Hexuan, as well as the details of the original novel, and recounts the difficulty of filming the film.
The filming process of "The Goddess" has indeed gone through ups and downs, and it has been almost two years since it was planned. Since it is the latest sound film technology, it only took one month to train the sound engineer, and it took two months for the director to master the corresponding technology.
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As a result, halfway through the filming, the "September 18th" and "December 28th" incidents broke out one after another.
Luo Mingyou, one of the investors, owned six theaters in Northeast China and was busy replacing audio playback equipment. Once the Japanese invaded, all the investment in these theaters was in vain, and funds were suddenly stretched. The house leaked and it rained all night, and it was very difficult.
Soon as the Battle of Songhu began, the filming of "The Goddess" was completely put on hold.
Not only did the crew of "The Goddess" stop production, the entire Lianhua Pictures Company fled Shanghai, and everyone from managers to employees took refuge in Hong Kong. It was not until the signing of the "Songhu Armistice Agreement" that Ruan Lingyu and others returned to Shanghai to continue filming, which was delayed for half a year.
After a long time, it took nearly two years to finally shoot "The Goddess".
Zhou Hexuan looked at the movie manual of "The Goddess" and couldn't help but smile bitterly: I'm afraid it will be difficult to recover the cost of this movie.
