Indiferrence And Mundane: Eileen Chang's Editing Thoughts And Publishing Practice

As a famous female writer in the 20 th century,Eileen Chang showed the editorial thinking of "taking readers as the center","defending copyright" and "focusing on artistic design" in the process of creating literary works.Her distinct publishing attitude and publishing awareness also guide her publishing practice in book review preface writing,review and proofreading,book binding,etc.The editorial thought is the editor's research and understanding of the guidelines and policies within the scope of editing and publishing business,as well as the opinions and propositions about propaganda and reports formed through the investigation,observation and thinking of the actual life of the society.While devoting herself to literary creation,Eileen Chang also calmly examines the relationship between literary works and readers.In the process,she has formed three core editorial ideas of "focusing on readers","defending copyright" and "focusing on artistic design".She believes that works need to serve readers,keeps improving the quality of works;copyright awareness is an important part of editorial thinking.At the same time,although writers can get a certain amount of remuneration through works,they have no rights to copy.The understanding of the copyright is not systematically complete.Eileen Chang has paid special attention to copyright because she has experienced piracy of her works.As the right of reputation in copyright,it is reflected in the active maintenance of personal reputation.Eileen Chang has written many times to the outside world.Eileen Chang is a "strange woman" who loves beauty,and her aesthetic concept has penetrated into her works.She has dabbled in literature,music,painting and even book binding,and in order to make the form of the book more appealing readers love to hear it,she is also fully aware of the role of advertising and publicity,and uses this to plan book publicity and market the book.Publishing practice is the implementation and continuation of editorial thinking,and also the source of promoting the continuous progress of editorial thinking.Eileen Chang's publishing practice is mainly reflected in the writing,proofreading,and translation of books and documents for readers,in which she continues her attitude of striving for perfection,and creates multiple styles for different readers;The most direct evidence of her publishing practice,she once served as the publisher of "Rumors",and also conducted version textual research on "A Dream of Red Mansions",which took ten years to write "A Nightmare of Red Mansions";the quality of the content of the book is the top priority,but the binding is also the book as part of the book publishing process,Eileen Chang infuses her own aesthetic ideas into the process of book publishing,and promotes her ideas to readers in the book market,so that the book's binding and content complement each other and add to the icing on the cake.