Ideal business

Author: Lin Xingzhi
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: At a small place where I write in Chinese, Lin Xingzhi and I were once rare and outstanding partners. We all had beliefs but no prejudices; we were all willing to take risks and try new things; we were not tied to material possessions, regardless of what others said. We all believed that the art of writing should be concise and clear, sincere, and that being pretentious was unacceptable. Professor Zhang Wu Chang has always been proud of himself, treating his articles as if they were his wife's. They were neither worthless brooms nor should they be cherished even more, let alone boastful—it had long been a well-known story. This time, even he admitted that Lin Xingzhi was Hong Kong's pen, proving that the claim of being a leader in style was a settled conclusion.
Although what Lin Xingzhi discussed and narrated was mainly about financial and economic events, he did not shy away from social and political issues. In recent years, he has been living a semi-retired life, writing columns instead of social commentaries, and has doubled his reading experiences. His writings reveal a particularly simple yet profound understanding of the world, and his articles have shed several layers of pretense, smoothly entering a new realm.