Chapter 143: Everything is ready, only the east wind
Writing a thesis takes time. After choosing the topic, you have to write a proposal report. But this time, the University of Hong Kong did not ask Lin Xiaoguang to write this. He could just write the thesis directly.
However, Lin Xiaoguang is still preparing to write the proposal report.
Among other things, the proposal report is an important part of the thesis. It contains the purpose and significance of the selected topic, an overview of domestic and foreign research, a literature review, the theoretical basis of the paper, research methods, research content, thesis outline, schedule, etc. One of them is missing.
No.
Without a proposal report, the paper is likely to be biased.
But before the thesis report, there is one more thing to decide, which is to choose the topic of the thesis.
In the future, his master's degree will be in literature and cultural studies, and his undergraduate degree will be in English. The only connection between the two sides is the literature and culture of English-speaking countries. The only English-speaking countries with culture are the United Kingdom and the United States. Considering that the University of Hong Kong is the British government of Hong Kong
As a public university, the choice is imminent.
British Literature and Culture, but this thesis topic is still too big and must be made smaller.
For example, British tea culture and British literature, the development of female subject status in British literature, literary theory and cultural research on Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", research on British Baroque literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, etc.
Lin Xiaoguang is a Peking undergraduate who graduated in 1989. Influenced by his ex-girlfriend’s admiration for foreigners, he knows a lot about British literature.
But regarding the paper, especially since he was in Hong Kong now, he didn’t want to write about the British aspect.
French British guy.
If he really wants to write about foreign literature and culture, he might as well write about the United States. The United States is the most powerful country in the world now and for some time to come. He will go to the United States in the future, so he might as well write about the United States now.
In terms of American literature and culture, you can either write about African-Asian identity and cultural conflict, or you can write about the symbolic significance of whiteness in American literature and culture, or about American literature and culture under the Cold War mentality. When it comes to a certain level, you can write
American cultural values in Hollywood movies and more.
Finally, he chose a topic: "Moby-Dick"'s reconstruction of the symbolic meaning of "whiteness" in American literature and culture.
"Moby-Dick" is a marine-themed novel published in 1851 by the 19th-century American novelist Herman Melville. It describes the story of a captain chasing and killing a white whale, and eventually perishing with the white whale.
The movie "Moby-Dick" released in 1956 was adapted from this novel.
When Lin Xiaoguang was in college, he had read the novel and movie "Moby-Dick". In 2010, he had also watched the remake of the movie "Moby-Dick" and was relatively familiar with it. There were also people who had chosen the thesis topic he chose.
It was published in foreign literary review journals and he also conducted in-depth research.
"White" has a special meaning in American literature and culture. It not only refers to the skin color of the Anglo-Saxons and the color of the White House, the official residence of the American president, but is also given a special symbolic meaning in American literature and culture, such as the color of the Chinese people.
Combination of yellow skin color and red flag.
Insulting white people is equivalent to insulting Americans.
Before the publication of "Moby-Dick", most American scholars would agree with the superiority of the white group and praise the nobility and purity of "whiteness".
The publication of "Moby-Dick" is of landmark significance. In this novel, Melville not only dismembered the myth of "whiteness" in American literature and culture, but also destroyed the myth that played a key role in the formation of the theory of "white" racial superiority.
It serves as the cultural soil and reconstructs the connotation and symbolism of “white”.
Melville restored white to a place alongside other colors.
To a certain extent, Melville destroyed the white supremacy beliefs of many white Americans and told them in an indirect way that there is no difference between us white people and yellow people, black people, and other people of color.
All are equal.
Lin Xiaoguang certainly had to applaud such a work of extraordinary significance, and he also had to write a thesis and defend it openly at the University of Hong Kong, a public school run by the British government.
Think about it, how cool it would be to be slapped in the face in front of a white professor.
After deciding on the topic of the thesis, he began to write the proposal report. After the first draft was almost completed, Ji Yun's Qinhuai Food and Beverage Company was registered.
At the same time, Zhong Wenzhang also found a food factory that was about to go bankrupt in Tsuen Wan, New Territories. It mainly produced instant noodles. The boss had great ambitions to develop a new instant noodles flavor different from that of Nissin Food Company. Unfortunately, a lot of money was invested, and the new flavor not only failed
After developing it, he incurred debt and brought down the instant noodle factory that was a copycat of Nissin Company.
Lin Xiaoguang doesn't care.
You can't make a fat man by eating one meal at a time. If you don't have the capital to innovate right now, then you can only make a copycat. Forget it, Nissin should reunify it and change its appearance and packaging.
Change the seasoning package again, add a vinegar package, chili oil package, and slightly modify or delete the ingredients in other sauce packages and vegetable packages. If possible, look for a sauerkraut package, kimchi package, and pickled mustard package.
Basically that's it.
In addition to machines for producing seasoning packets, this instant noodle factory also has machines for producing other noodles, as well as machines for producing barreled paper packaging and bagged plastic packaging. Although the sparrow is small, it has all the essentials.
"What's going on with that debt?" Lin Xiaoguang asked.
"We don't need to worry about the debt. He borrowed it from others in his own capacity, not in the name of a company, so now he owes the money, not the company. However, the company has no money in its books, so it laid off all the workers.
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Zhong Wenzhang was very excited: "He borrowed money from a friend who was not close to him. He borrowed a lot again and again. He owed money for a long time and the creditor couldn't bear it, so he found the society. This time the society came to ask for the debt. He was prepared to give it a few more days.
Yes, but unexpectedly his son was arrested. Now he has no choice but to sell the factory to raise funds to pay off debts."
"How much does he want?"
"250,000 Hong Kong dollars." Zhong Wenzhang said a number and added: "But I think he is in a hurry, and the price can be lowered."
"How big is the factory floor area?"
"It's almost 15 acres, 10,000 square meters, which is 100,000 square feet. It's quite big."
"This land should be industrial land, and the property rights belong to him, or? He priced the factory at HK$200,000, does that include the land?" Hearing this, Lin Xiaoguang became even more interested.
"This..." Zhong Wenzhang felt a little ashamed: "He didn't say this. I didn't know about it and didn't ask."
Lin Xiaoguang smiled and comforted him: "This is actually not important. I just asked it casually. However, if the price can be lowered a little lower, we will have enough money for five kinds of food and drinks."
Zhong Wenzhang is a non-professional editor, so he can do this well.
"Xiaoguang, I will continue to follow up." Zhong Wenzhang was a little ashamed.
Zhong Wenzhang and Ji Yun continued to negotiate, and Lin Xiaoguang was not idle, revising the proposal report at the same time. A few days later, Lei Meng's letter arrived, saying that he had arrived at Shenzhen Pass.
Lin Xiaoguang immediately took a deep breath, everything was ready, now the only thing left was the east wind.