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  1. 1961–62 is considered as the ‘echo’ of the ‘Hundred Flowers Campaign’. See Donald J. Munro, ‘Dissent in Communist China in the Current Anti-Intellectual Campaign in Perspective’,Current Scene 4 (June 1, 1966).

  2. Kuan-fêng and Lin Lü-shih, ‘Several Problems Concerning the Class Analysis in the Study of a History of Philosophy’,Che Hsüeh Yen-Chiu [Philosophical Research], (1963,6), p. 29. Later abbreviated asCHYC.

  3. Hu-sheng, ‘On the Study of History of Chinese Philosophy’,SPHCP, p. 503.

  4. Jen Chi-yü, ‘On the Object and Scope of the History of Chinese Philosophy’,SPHCP, p. 48.

  5. Fung Yu-lan, ‘An Answer to Comrade Ch'en I ch'eng's Question’,CHYC (1963,5) p. 61.

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  11. For instance, Hu-sheng expresses the same idea in ‘Studies Concerning the History of Philosophy’,SPHCP, pp. 512–513.

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  13. See footnote 9, Fung Yu-lan, first part, pp. 18 and 27.

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  22. The Conference was held in Tsinan, the capital of Shantung province, Nov. 6–12, 1962.

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  32. ibid., p. 381.

  33. ibid., p. 372.

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  35. Fung Yu-lan expressed this view in the preface to both hisHistory of Chinese Philosophy andHsin Yüan Tao.

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Tsao, I.J.H. A decade of philosophical issues in Mainland China: 1956–1965. Studies in Soviet Thought 8, 306–314 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01043692

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