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Mao Tun: The Critic (Part 2)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Extract

If as a theorist Mao Tun was without a theory, as a polemicist he was without a polemic. What plagued him there also hurt him here, and for the same reason: he did not as yet have any firm conviction regarding his standpoint. He did not have a solid base to operate from.

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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1964

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49 Ibid. p. 263.

51 Ibid. p. 262.

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53 Ibid. p. 197.

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