Chapter 11 cheating

Deng Dangshi In the past two years, a lot of scandals in the "literary world" have been exposed: cutting and pasting, blind copying, selling, and counterfeiting.But there are still things that cannot be questioned, just because we are used to seeing them and no longer pay attention to them. Although the signature of a celebrity may not necessarily be well written, it only indicates that the author or publisher of the book knows the celebrity, and has nothing to do with the content, so it is not deceptive.Suspicious is "proofreading".The role of proofreading is naturally celebrities, scholars, and professors.These gentlemen, however, themselves wrote no works on the subject.So whether the proofreading is really done is a problem; even if it is really proofreaded, whether the proofreading is really reliable is another question.However, we rarely see articles that are reviewed and criticized.

There is also an "edit".The editor is also probably a celebrity, because of this name, the readers feel that the book is reliable.But this is also very suspicious.If there are some prefaces and postscripts in the book, we can still judge from the article, think, whether it is really edited by this person, but the books on display in the market often open the table of contents, so you can't figure it out at all.How can this be reliable?As for the so-called "editor-in-chief" of most of the various types of publications, it is a celebrity who knows everything from the sky to the ground.

There is also a "freelance writer".When the publication first came out, the advertisements often listed a large number of celebrities who were freelance writers, and sometimes the author's signature was printed in letterpress to show its authenticity.This is not suspicious.However, after a year and a half, there are gradually flaws, and many so-called freelance writers have disappeared.We have no way of knowing whether there was no appointment, or whether we did not come, but we can see that those so-called autographs may have been cut from other places, or they were simply forged.If it was taken from the submission, why did you see the signature but not the manuscript?

These celebrities are selling their "names", but do you know that they are receiving "dry salaries"?If you get it, you will naturally agree to sell it yourself, otherwise, it can be said to be "stolen and sold". There are those who "deceive the world and steal their names", and there are those who steal and sell their names to deceive the world. The world is really diverse.However, the only losers are the readers. March 7th.

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(1) This article was originally published in "Shen Shen Free Talk" on March 28, 1934. (2) See Chapter 48 of Lao Tzu for the phrase "doing nothing without doing nothing".