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  1. See Mao Tse-tung:Hsüan-chi. Vol. II (first edition), Peking, 1952, p. 766. In the British edition, of which volumes I and II were first published in 1954, the abovecited passage appears on page 13; it is rendered ‘additions, deletions and revisions’ (This edition is hereafter cited as Mao,SW).

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  3. Ibid., p. 245.

  4. Fang was stationed at Tihua as representative of the Chinese Communist Eighth Route Army (Ibid., p. 229; cf. pp. 189 f.).

  5. Ibid., p. 230.

  6. Ibid., pp. 230 f.

  7. Ibid., pp. 188 f.

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  11. Ibid., p. 633.

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  13. Chung-kuo nung-min no. 2 (1926) 4. In the English-language editions the termmao-tun is once translated as ‘contradictory’ and once as ‘dilemma’ (SW I, p.14).

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  44. ‘Wei-wu lun ho wei-hsin lun’ (Materialism and Idealism). Chapter I ofChe-hsüeh hsüan-chi (Selected Philosophical Writings). Shanghai. 1939. pp. 40 f. Italics added.

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  47. Ibid., pp. 70 ff.

  48. Ibid., IV, pp. 176 f., 198 ff.

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Wittfogel, K.A. Some remarks on Mao's handling of concepts and problems of dialectics. Studies in Soviet Thought 3, 251–269 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01045649

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