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Mao Tun: The Critic (Part 2)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2009
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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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