Another old judge said, “Let’s see what poem he will recite today. I happen to have heard of his ‘A Generation’. I heard that there were some problems with that bunch of people from the Beijing Writers’ Association?”
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Other than these industry insiders, other people were not looking forward to it.
“Thank the Leaders?”
“What’s nice about such an acceptance speech?”
“That’s right; to think he even wrote a poem to thank his Leaders? What an ass-kisser! He’s kissing too much ass!”
“What can you do? It’s all people in the system. Who can you thank other than the Leaders?”
Quite a number of radio and television station counterparts from other provinces were dismissive. Some even silently scolded Zhang Ye as an ass-kisser!