Just turned over a new leaf and became a wise and intelligent student

Chapter 120 The Duties of China's Top Academics (23)

Scholars naturally have a kind of arrogance that "How can I bow my head and serve the powerful and wealthy, so that I cannot be happy?"

Fabio felt resentful towards Chen Dayue's behavior.

In the letter, he used the most emotional words he could to express his grief to Chen Dayue.

When Chen Dayue opened his mailbox with great anticipation, ready to receive Fabio's "no problem" email, he actually received a letter from Fabio that was full of emotion and had no skills.

Chen Dayue was filled with question marks.

I haven't said anything, how come Fabio has already imagined so many things?
Chen Dayue frowned in his office as he read Fabio's reply.

This reply letter is full of emotions and lacks any objective skills.

"What happened to Fabio?"

Chen Dayue was very dissatisfied.

When I first met Fabio, I didn't realize that he had such a prejudice against the situation in China.

In fact, people of Chen Dayue's generation often encountered discrimination and xenophobia when they were studying abroad.

In the mainstream academic circles, the attitude towards the Chinese people, especially scholars of Chinese descent, is very clear.

It is very easy to win an award. Just join the Western academic circle and you can easily win awards for any of your achievements. This will further demonstrate the correctness of the Western academic circle.

Although science has no borders, scientists do have borders.

The status of Chinese people in the academic world is constantly changing along with China's international status and national strength.

Maybe someone can find out.

Since the beginning of the 21st century, in the first decade of the 21st century, it has been extremely difficult for domestic scholars to gain recognition from the international academic community.

Even if scholars have achieved results, it is still difficult for them to win international awards.

This makes academic achievements very rare.

This also leads to a large number of top students eventually choosing to go abroad after embarking on the academic path.

In the early 2000s.

There are many people who admire the full moon outside.

The living standards in developed countries and the West's control over the academic community will make some people choose to stay.

This creates a vicious cycle.

However, the presence of scholars abroad does not mean that there are no patriots.

Just like Li and Yang, they finally chose to return to China.

But there are many controversies regarding the issues, right and wrong involved.

However, this is also limited to 09.

In a few years, the situation will be greatly eased.

Especially during the period from 2012 to 2018, China's national strength increased rapidly and the international situation was special.

The improvement of its international status can be seen not only in diplomacy, but also in various world awards.

From 2012 to 2018, the number of international awards won by Chinese scholars and the number of papers published in top journals showed an exponential growth trend.

At this time in 2009.

Being able to publish an SCI paper is a key support for professional title evaluation even for an ordinary professor.

But in ten or ten years, SCI papers will become just toys for undergraduates even in China.

I want to break the arrogance and prejudice of Western academia.

There are only two routes.

Or they use absolute academic strength to become a pillar that they cannot avoid. All those who study this subject must kowtow to this scholar, and naturally no one dares to bring up those things.

Or use absolute firepower.

No matter which option.

It all takes time.

Fortunately, although Fabio also showed obvious bias, Chen Dayue was no pushover either.

He immediately wrote another letter, and this time he didn't say anything fancy, but directly bombarded emotions with emotions.

"Fabio, I no longer respect you as my dear. Because of your prejudice and distrust of me, we are no longer friends. I am angry at your arrogance and prejudice!"

Chen Dayue didn't really want to fight with Fabio.

But when it comes to Europeans and Americans, sometimes you don't have to hide your feelings. If you are unhappy, just criticize them. After all, your international academic status does not need the support of one or two scholars.

So he can express his emotions to his heart's content.

"I think you must be watching those shitty media reports every day. You have never been to China. How can you make a conclusion about a country you have never been to, just based on the words of those stupid candidates?"

"You don't have any trust in me either. Do you think I got my position as the head of the Department of Probability and Statistics in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Kyoto University by flattering others?"

"We have known each other for so many years, and I have never slandered your country, but you are jealous because I discovered a true genius, and you point the finger at my country. You don't believe that such a genius can appear in my country, and you are not even willing to ask me a few more questions and verify it with me! You must have eaten shit every day at Humboldt University when you returned to Bolin, and your brain must have turned into shit, shit, shit, shit!"

"You are not worthy of being a respectable scholar. You are now a discriminatory and righteous-minded scholar."

"You are a fake, a coward, and a loser who only knows how to bow to the Gallic chickens who surrender every day and the woolly bears who hit you on the head with a mallet!"

Chen Dayue has a limited vocabulary for cursing in English.

But the entire reply contained a lot of shit.

Moreover, some insults without swear words are more offensive than swear words.

As a civilized scholar who has always shown his gentle and elegant side, it is rare for Chen Dayue to have such an emotional side.

After receiving Chen Dayue's letter, Fabio looked as ugly as if he had eaten shit. He lowered his head and looked at his dinner.

The beef rolls wrapped with pickles, onions, and bacon really look like
Königsberg meatballs made with ground beef and served in a thick sauce made with capers and lemon do look like .
The last dish is a soft broth made of pork, potatoes, and sauerkraut, which looks more like
"vomit"

"Scheie!"

Fabio found a tissue and wiped his mouth. He had no appetite.

He cursed inwardly, but calmed himself down again. He opened the email sent by Chen Dayue on his mobile phone again and read the email carefully from beginning to end, with a changeable expression on his face.

"Scheie"

Fabio cursed again.

But this sentence is an insult to oneself.

The reason why Chen greeted me with such anger and in such a tone was definitely because of my attitude.

Fabio is not someone who doesn't reflect.

Quite the opposite.

He felt that he was the most reflective and the best at admitting his mistakes.

But what Chen said seemed to make some sense.

In recent years, I have been attending meetings of those big-nosed idiots in Great Britain who look down on people through their noses.

Although I don't really like to come into contact with things that are more Masashi-oriented.

But it seems that without realizing it, the mind has also been infiltrated.

Fabio felt that he had no complete understanding or concept of what kind of place China was.

But when he was studying, he only knew that it was a magical academic desert.

China has not produced any influential results in the theoretical academic world, but geniuses from China are showing their talents all over the world.

Just like the Chen Dayue he knew.

The expression on Fabio's face changed a lot, and finally turned into a breath of foul air and spat it out fiercely.

He felt that he was no longer pure.

Dirty.

It's like being slapped in the face by the damn Gallic chickens with their roots.

"Scheie."

Fabio hurried back home.

This time he did not choose to reply to Chen Dayue by email, but chose to make an expensive international call.

"Who?"

Chen Dayue, who was half asleep, was awakened by Fabio's series of calls. He didn't even look at the phone number, but rubbed his eyes and picked up the phone.

What kind of nice person would call someone in the middle of the night?

"Chen, sorry"

Chen Dayue listened to the heavily accented English voice on the phone and looked at the phone number with a frown.

Very strange.

Academics like them normally communicate via email. Although good friends will keep each other's phone numbers, normally they may not call each other for many years.

After listening to the crazy confession from the other side for a while, Chen Dayue finally realized that the person who called him was Fabio.

"Fabio, do you know what time it is?"

Chen Dayue finally responded to the repentant Fabio. Fabio looked confused and almost cried because of his confession.

"Isn't it nine o'clock in the evening?"

"That's Bolin time! I'm in the capital and it's three in the morning!"

Chen Dayue complained speechlessly.

"But since you apologized so sincerely, I am willing to give you a chance tomorrow to talk about my genius student Xu Qingshan. Also, you need to make some compensation to my precious student. You understand."

This is Chen Dayue’s purpose.

Arguing without a purpose and an end goal is meaningless.

Chen Dayue's emotional outburst is ultimately intended to obtain resources from Fabio.

Of course, if Fabio turns against him, Chen Dayue will not suffer any loss. For him, it can be regarded as screening out a potential enemy.

When Chen Dayue became a member of the Department of Probability and Statistics at the School of Mathematics of Peking University, he was determined to return to China after completing his studies.

Whether he asked Zhang Fuxi to go on a visiting scholar program and then come back to teach, or pushed Ding Jian to study for a doctorate, he tried his best to have Ding Jian return to the Department of Mathematics at Peking University to teach.

Chen Dayue is indeed wholeheartedly devoted to building the Department of Probability and Statistics at Peking University.

He often talked about this with his favorite students in private:
“We go abroad so that we can return home better.”

“Bringing the cutting edge back until we become the cutting edge.”

"This is our duty as the top academic figures in China."

"If we don't do it, who else should take on this responsibility?"

He is a true scholar.

He has always adhered to his bottom line and responsibilities, and loved his motherland.

At present, Ding Jian has received extensive international recognition and has won many important awards at home and abroad, including the Sloan Research Award, the Davidson Award, the Loyfe Probability Award, the Gold Medal of Mathematics at the 2022th World Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, and the Science Exploration Award. He was invited to give a 45-minute report at the 2024 International Congress of Mathematicians and a 1-hour report at the International Congress of Mathematical Physics. Ding Jian, a tenured associate professor at the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania, has returned to China and serves as a chair professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences at Peking University.

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