Chapter 302 - Blasted! (2/2)
Renmin University’s Professor Ma Hengyuan appeared once again. He was the one who was originally set as “Lecture Room”‘s first lecturer, but later ended with conflict with Zhang Ye, Hu Fei, and their team, resulting in Zhang Ye replacing him. It could be said that Ma Hengyuan had a serious grudge with Zhang Ye. Besides, he was a professor in literature, so he had the right to comment on this matter. “I can definitely say that by inviting Zhang Ye to teach appreciation, this is the biggest mistake Peking University has made in recent years. Zhang Ye may be able to write a poem or prose, but to evaluate the cla.s.sics, he doesn’t have enough qualifications!” He was disgruntled. Up to now, he did not believe Zhang Ye did a better job lecturing the Three Kingdoms than him.
Some students also started making their views known.
They were all students of either Ma Hengyuan or the Tsinghua University professor’s students!
“Support Professor Ma!”
“Zhang Ye is going to Peking University? He’s going to make a fool of himself!”
“Zhang Ye’s a celebrity of the entertainment circle, what does he know?!”
“He had already been warned by the SARFT and can no longer stay in the entertainment circle, so now he comes to knock on the educational circle’s door? This is not only being irresponsible to us students! It is also insulting the all educators and their predecessors!”
“I don’t think Zhang Ye will make good on this appointment. He can present his program well, but to teach others? He does not even qualify! When did it ever come to his turn in this education world?”
Not long after, people from the literary circle also appeared!
Beijing Writer’s a.s.sociation’s Vice President Meng Dongguo commented. He a grudge with Zhang Ye, far greater than Professor Ma Hengyuan. It was not only a single conflict. Back at the Mid-Autumn Festival Poetry Meet and at the Couplet Compet.i.tion, Zhang Ye had previously used Guo Degang’s limerick, “It’s not like I’ll come” back at him when Meng Dongguo said the Beijing Writer’s a.s.sociation would never want a person like Zhang Ye. Now with so many people questioning Zhang Ye’s teaching ability, he was no longer alone.
Meng Dongguo posted, “A person who couldn’t even get into the Writers’ a.s.sociation now wants to shamelessly teach ‘Appreciation of the Cla.s.sics’? ‘a.n.a.lysis of the Three Kingdoms’ was just a variety program. It was only presented to the ma.s.ses and only touches the surface of the topic. Basically in the literary circle, as long as anyone has done deep enough research, they would know that ‘borrowing the east wind’ did not exist, that ‘the empty fort strategy’ also did not exist. Did we even need Zhang Ye to tell us? With most people already knowing this, you now want to use this information to teach the gifted students of Peking University? Isn’t that child’s play? Everyone, get this clear. Zhang Ye’s ‘a.n.a.lysis of the Three Kingdoms’ is about history, not literature. If you use ‘a.n.a.lysis of the Three Kingdoms’ to point out the logic of ‘Romance of the Three Kingdoms’, then would this still be called literature? Literature and history are two different fields. If you are in the field of literature, then naturally you would need to study this novel’s value and significance and not make a fuss about it. This is really laughable, it’ll totally improperly belittle oneself!”
Someone replied after that.
“Right!”
“”a.n.a.lysis of the Three Kingdoms’ is based on history!”
“Come to think of it, in so many episodes of ‘a.n.a.lysis of the Three Kingdoms’, Zhang Ye had never talked about the novel’s literary contributions and significance. It’s all him denying and bringing up what was real and what wasn’t!”
“You hit the spot!”
“I don’t expect much from Zhang Ye either!”
Of course, there were also people in the industry who supported Zhang Ye. For example, a not very well-known author said, “Someone who can speak so thoroughly about the Three Kingdoms, why would he only critique the novel? Not explain its literary significance? Zhang Ye had already done a thorough study on the ‘Romance of the Three Kingdoms’ from front to back and back to front. He could talk about it all the same. Doesn’t Zhang Ye already have a lot of works? Just citing the most recent ‘To The Oak’ and the new ‘Everything’, how can there still be people who doubt his literary level? I believe that a person who can produce so many outstanding poems would definitely be able to give a good talk about a famous cla.s.sic. In fact, I feel that Peking University has made a very correct choice by inviting Zhang Ye to join them!”
But these words of support for Zhang Ye were quickly drowned out!
More and more educators began to repeatedly denounce Zhang Ye as a black sheep joining Peking University. They all expressed their outrage!
Deputy Station Head Jia, who had already been relieved of his duties, also jumped out to say “If you want to teach others, first you need to know how to be upright. Zhang Ye is a typical person who does not know how to be a person, so how could he teach the students well? I will be the first to distrust him!” Seeing Zhang Ye besieged on all sides, Deputy Station Head Jia also took the chance to add fuel to fire!
With so many famous predecessors and well-known people denouncing Zhang Ye, many parents of the Peking University students, who did not know better, also started to believe what was being said. After all, compared to those authoritative figures, Zhang Ye was only someone from the entertainment circle. The parents would, of course, choose to believe those teachers from the educational and literature world.
“What the heck is Peking University trying to do?”
“Don’t let that Zhang Ye contaminate the campus!”
“My child is one of those who had chosen to take the ‘Appreciation of the Cla.s.sics’ elective! That Zhang Ye musn’t lead my child astray! I’ve watched an episode of his Talk Show before. He really has no bottom line!”
The discussions were totally one-sided!
Zhang Ye had once again become the topic of discussion!
Many neutral observers were now speechless. At the beginning, didn’t everyone congratulate and were looking forward to it? In the end, everyone started to denounce him? This Teacher Zhang Ye, you really attract too much hate. Just how many people have you offended in the past! Every time something happens to him, why does it always become a gunfight!?
Honestly speaking, if it were somebody else, even if a host from the entertainment circle, who was even more unreliable than Zhang Ye, had been invited to Peking University to teach instead, they might not have caused such a controversy, but just because it was Zhang Ye who had been the one appointed to teach, there was no other way out. Who asked him to have offended so many people before? Whether it was in the entertainment circle, the literary circle, the education circle, or even a government unit, who had he not offended before!?
If there was a compet.i.tion for “China’s Best Tank*”, Zhang Ye would definitely have been crowned the winner without a doubt. Even if he were to stand there and keep quiet, he’d steadily attract hatred!
<script>