Chapter 114: Intellectual Workers
Intellectuals - Intellectuals mainly refer to people who have rich knowledge, free thought, independent personality, and a certain critical spirit of reality. There are also general terms that are considered to be intellectual workers.
One of the Demon Heroes' rebels, the floating pot space, Han Han
Han Han (September 23, 1982) was born in Jinshan, Shanghai. Chinese professional rally and track racer, writer, editor-in-chief of the "Soloists" magazine (now discontinued), and dabbled in music composition.
Han Han began to publish novels when he was in junior high school, and his work "Bookstore" was published in the 9th issue of Jiangsu edition of "Juvenile Literature and Art" in 1997, and he was promoted to Shanghai Songjiang No. 2 Middle School as a sports student.
In his first year of high school (1999), he won the first prize in the first New Concept Essay Contest with the article "Peeping People in the Cup", and later rebelled against the school's exam-oriented education due to his collection of Chinese studies, resulting in a failure in seven subjects in the final exam and repeating the grade.
His first published novel, "Triple Gate," became his best-selling work and catapulted Han Han to overnight fame. In order to create "Triple Gate", Han Han once again enrolled in seven subjects and finally dropped out of high school.
After dropping out of school, he published a series of best-selling books: essay collections "Zero One Degree", "Manuscript 2003", "Just Drifting Around" and "Miscellaneous Essays", and the novels "Like a Teenager Flying Away", "Chang'an Chaos", "A City", "Glory Day", "His Country" and "1988, I Want to Talk to This World" and other works.
Out of his love for driving, Han Han became a professional driver, but he continued to publish a series of current review articles through his blog, and his blog became the most clicked blog in China. Many of these articles have attracted a lot of social attention and even controversy, so articles are often banned.
Han Han also got involved in music creation, and at the end of September 2006, he released his first album "Eighteen Forbidden", and served as the lyricist for all of them. In 2010, Han Han participated in Hu Ge's short film "Animal World: Dwelling Animals in the World". In addition, Han Han also participated in the film "Legend of the Sea" directed by Jia Zhangke.
On April 19, 2009, Han Han opened an online bookstore on Taobao called "Han Han's Bookstore", which claimed to only sell genuine books signed by himself.
On May 1, 2009, Han Han published a letter on his Sina.com blog titled "New Magazine's Call for Papers." Ask for trust. Manuscript fee standard, submission mailbox", the article introduced, Han Han himself will start a magazine. But in order to prevent piracy on the market. The name of the magazine is not written in the article. It is only a contact email address for submission, application and advertising cooperation.
It is worth noting that Han Han introduced in the article that he ran his own magazine. The original article recommended on the cover is 1,000 words/2,000 yuan, and it is revealed that this manuscript fee standard is already 10 to 40 times the standard of China's publishing industry, and 2 to 4 times higher than the contract fee paid by China's top magazines to top writers.
The manuscript fee for ordinary manuscripts is also 1000 words/1000 yuan, which is 10 to 20 times higher than the current publishing industry standard, and for articles that have been published or excerpted from magazines, the manuscript fee is 1000 words/500 yuan, which is already 15 times the current standard, and the manuscript fee for photos has reached 5000 yuan.
Han Han also wrote in the article that the self-run magazine will open a column of brain-dead manuscripts, and the manuscript fee will be set at 1,000 words/250 yuan to highlight the image of the collaborator of the article's views and writing.
The following is a description of the 1000 words/250 yuan manuscript fee in Han Han's blog post "New Magazine's Call for Papers, Letters for Solicitation of Applicants, Manuscript Fee Standards, Submission Mailbox":
Each issue of the magazine also has two to three articles with the worst views and writing, indicating that the magazine does not agree with the author's point of view at all, the magazine believes that the author is brain-dead, anti-human, anti-common sense, anti-justice, and anti-freedom, and the magazine will also publish this kind and show it to the public, in order to show that it is consistent with the image of these people, so the standard of manuscript fee for this kind of article is 1000 words/250 yuan, which is also a very high standard, 250 never fell from the sky, and the birth of 250 also has a cost. —Han Han
Five days after the publication of the article, Han Han's unpublished magazine has received more than 10,000 submissions from all over the world, and there are thousands of application briefs. Interestingly, in these submissions, Han Han found several copy-paste, pornographic novels, and graduation thesis articles that were expressly prohibited in the previous statement articles, and Han Han expressed his helplessness and stated that he would not publish such articles.
The matter of running a magazine has received social attention, and some editors said that it has saved the personality of literati, and a reporter commented that Han Han has completed the transformation from a rebellious youth to an intellectual.
However, due to some restrictions on publication and distribution in China, Han Hanji's August 2009 magazine "The Soloist" was postponed for nearly a year before its release on July 6, 2010. Despite this, readers remained enthusiastic, and the book's publisher, Chinese World, announced that less than 10 hours after the pre-sale was launched, "The Soloist" had already reached the No. 1 spot on the overall sales list with pre-sales.
After turning professional racing, Han Han was rumored to be in financial crisis, and he admitted that compared with other professions, Chinese writers and racing drivers earn less, plus he is not involved in commercial activities, and his financial source is only book royalties. But there is a sense of accomplishment in the racing aspect, and winning the championship also proves that he is a well-rounded student.
Here's what Han Han said in an interview in 2007:
My income is the royalty of the book, I have no business acumen, I never buy stocks and funds, and playing racing is the most expensive, so I often can't open the pot at home. —Han Han
I never do any commercial activities myself, and I push off a lot of them every year, and there are more than 3 million in these advertising revenues alone, and I am afraid that I will not be able to collect them if I do it. —Han Han
Here are some of Han Han's achievements in his professional racing career:
In 2003, on behalf of the Beijing Speed Racing Team, he participated in the National Automobile Rally Championship Shanghai Station and won the sixth place in Group N, the eighth in Group N at Changchun Station, and the sixth place in Group N at Beijing Station.
In 2004, he was seventh in Group N of Shanghai Station and fourth in Chinese mainland.
In June 2004, he joined Yunnan Honghe Racing Team.
In 2004, he won the Asian Formula BMW Qualifying Championship. Awarded a BMW Scholarship of $50,000. Take part in the annual Formula BMW Asia Championship. Seventh in Bahrain and first in the Rookie Cup. Eighth in Malaysia and second in the Rookie Cup. Seventh in Shanghai and second in the Rookie Cup. Sixth in Japan and first in the Rookie Cup.
In 2005, he joined the Shanghai Volkswagen 333 team.
In 2005, the 1.6-liter group of the National Automobile Rally Championship ranked fourth in Shanghai, fourth in Guizhou, fourth in Liupanshui and fourth in Kunming.
In 2005, he was the champion of the Zhuhai station of the 1600cc group of the National Automobile Track Championship, the runner-up of the Shanghai station, the third place of the Beijing station and the champion of the closing station, and the runner-up of the 2005 year.
In 2006, on behalf of the Shanghai Volkswagen 333 Team, he participated in the National Automobile Venue Championship (CCC) and the National Automobile Rally Championship (CRC) at the same time, and won the third place in the 1600cc group of the National Automobile Venue Championship in Shanghai and the second place in the Shanghai Station of the National Automobile Rally Championship.
In 2007, on behalf of Shanghai Volkswagen 333 Team, he participated in both the National Automobile Track Championship (CCC) and the National Rally Championship (CRC), and won the annual championship of the 1600cc class of the National Automobile Track Championship.
In 2008, on behalf of the Shanghai Volkswagen 333 Team, he participated in the National Automobile Venue Championship (CCC) and the National Rally Championship (CRC) at the same time, and won the championship of the Zhuhai Station of the National Automobile Venue Championship 1600cc.
In 2009, he transferred to Shanghai FCACA Racing Team in the National Rally Championship (CRC), and drove the Subaru Impreza N14 modified by Prodrive Racing Company to participate in the N-group competition, and won the national championship of Beijing Station and the national championship of Shaowu Station, and beat Liu Caodong to win the annual championship of domestic drivers in the international group. (To be continued......)