Chapter 746

"Yang Rui doesn't only take classes in Tsinghua, he also has a temporary office. The conditions of the temporary office are very good." Looking back on his office, President Liu said, "it's smaller than mine, but it's warm and the space is not small. There's a big window and a small flower bed in front of the door."

In Professor Cai's office, Dean Liu said, "Yang Rui has a desk, a chair, a bookshelf, and a marching bed. There is a lot of space in the middle of the room. Oh, there is a stove in the middle, and there are several chairs around. He also uses the stove to roast beef. He says that the barbecue in the open oven is more delicious, and the seasonings are all alive, In a small bottle... "

Under the description of Liu Shengdong, Professor Cai instantly formed in his mind the scene of Yang Rui's temporary office: a small office, but a comfortable office... Or an office that can barbecue.

"What about the ion channel lab? The condition of ion channel laboratory is not bad, isn't Yang Rui working in it? "

"I think maybe Tsinghua's temporary office is quieter. It seems that it's quite suitable for writing. "

Professor Cai originally wanted to say that the ion channel laboratory is also very quiet, but considering that it has expanded to nearly 30 people, he can't say so. Professor Cai, who is also the director of the laboratory, knows what several experimental groups look like when they are busy. If the boss is in the laboratory, he will be asked how to do it.

The work of the laboratory is like this. Everything needs the participation of the boss. Many times, Professor Cai has to operate the microscope or pick up the pipette himself.

It's not impossible to be a shaking hands shopkeeper, but the progress of the laboratory often lags far behind. If the deputy in the laboratory has the ability to compete with other laboratories alone, or reach the level of the laboratory director, most of them have to go out on their own. In the laboratory, the life goal of Wang and his dogs, who have the largest number of scientific researchers, is not to contribute to the laboratory. The goal of their hard work in the laboratory is to try their best to learn more knowledge and methods so that they can have their own laboratory one day. Therefore, when the director of the laboratory appears in the laboratory, the researchers will release the questions accumulated for many days.

At this time, the laboratory director's job is to answer all kinds of questions, just like the salary for scientific research Wang. The person in charge of the laboratory who does not appear in the laboratory for a long time is like the contractor who owes wages for a long time. He is not only unpopular, but also has moral worries.

Of course, being in the lab often doesn't mean staying in the lab forever. Professor Cai has his own office outside the laboratory. When he wants to do administrative work, he will come here.

"Let's find an office for Yang Rui, too? Is there any room in the building? " Professor Cai asked.

"No way." President Liu shook his head and said, "now the offices can't be lined up. Besides, there are also some problems with naming. Tsinghua gives them a temporary office. It's hard for anyone to say anything when they use it temporarily. What's more, Yang Rui doesn't have a laboratory in Tsinghua. We've already assigned a laboratory, and it's definitely not appropriate to reassign an office. "

"It's a problem."

"Yes... If other teachers came to me for an office, I would definitely try my best to overcome it, but Yang Rui didn't ask for an office." Dean Liu's expression is very helpless, giving people things has always been the most troublesome.

Professor Cai pondered for a moment, but did not continue to talk about this topic. Instead, he asked, "how is Yang Rui writing? How many chapters has he written?"

"More than ten chapters, because it's in English, I didn't read the manuscript carefully. You know, I read English articles slowly and tired..." academician Liu said with a smile.

Professor Cai's eyes narrowed: "the genomics you see is in English?"

"Yes."

"Genomics is the content of his class... He wrote this book based on his own teaching plan. He must use Chinese in class."

"Chinese, of course." President Liu replied.

"So, he wrote a Chinese teaching plan and compiled an English one?" Professor Cai's logic is very clear.

President Liu also found the problem, hesitated and said: "probably so... I saw the English version on his desk, and didn't think much about it at that time. I also asked the publishing house of Peking University to help him publish his handouts. Then, Yang Rui said that he had contacted the publishing house and wanted to wait for their news first. " President Liu pause for a moment, and said: "I contacted Tsinghua friends, Yang Rui also did not publish in Tsinghua."

"Of course, he won't publish in Tsinghua. He wants to publish abroad." As a senior scholar, Professor Cai can understand Yang Rui's ideas very well.

However, there is a big difference between writing a book in English and writing a thesis in English.

Many Chinese scholars are not proficient in English and can still write qualified English papers, especially the old school scholars in the 1980s. Many people's spoken English is not even enough to chat. But when you ask them to write papers, they are very proficient in attributive clause and predicate clause, and the standard language comes at will.After all, the requirement of a paper is to make things clear. Apart from the abnormal requirements of science and nature, other papers are just plain.

The requirement of writing a book is much more difficult than writing a paper for nature and science. The change between the lines is that students from ordinary English speaking countries may not be able to meet it.

President Liu lengshendao: "published abroad, OK?"

"Yang Rui is a celebrity abroad. The national television network of the United States, like our news network, has reported on him." Professor Cai breathed a sigh and said: "he has also done PCR and ion channel research. With such popularity and foundation, he has no obstacles in publishing his works abroad, and publishers may help him polish them."

President Liu did not think of this, not only said: "do you think the content is enough to publish?"

"It's not so difficult to publish a book abroad. Foreigners rarely have book numbers." Professor Cai said with a smile, "however, it's another matter whether we can sell it or not."

"Schools should buy it." President Liu understood this and said, "it's quite risky to say so."

Professor Cai nodded. The way of purchasing textbooks in foreign universities is similar to but different from that in China. Basically, every school decides which textbook to use. If it is a school run by professors, it is naturally the professors who decide which textbook to buy. Some professors will use their own textbooks, but not every professor has a book in every field. Therefore, most of the time, the famous works of famous professors are very popular, It's the highlight of the university textbook.

In some areas that are not very broad, even some textbooks of some professors, they will have a monopolistic effect.

However, as a relatively small number of books, even if they become textbooks, the sales volume of academic monographs will not be too large. 600 or 1200 books can be regarded as bestsellers. If they do not become textbooks, their annual sales volume is often less than 100 books, because the prices of books are very expensive, and most people in the Great United States do not like reading books, Not to read academic monographs.

Buying less means earning less, earning less means publishing worthless.

President Liu wanted to understand the relationship between them, and could not help but worry: "how can Yang Rui always choose such a difficult option?"

"He's still young. Young people are always confident." Professor Cai can quite understand. If he has the conditions, he also wants to publish a journal abroad.

"Well, can we help you?"

"It's OK to contact one or two people, but I can't decide." It's true that Professor Cai is a member of the academic department of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, but Chinese academicians can only affect one third of an acre of China, so do the so-called fourth level scholars.

With that, Professor Cai itched and said, "I have time tomorrow. I'll go to see the book written by Yang Rui."

"He'll be at Tsinghua tomorrow."

"We'll have lunch tomorrow. We'll ride over to see. I'll spare two hours and go to the lab after three in the afternoon." Professor Cai made a decision and wrote down the project on the calendar in front of his desk.

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