Several of our non-treasures had to be dismissed within days for intolerable personal filthiness (there was the celebrated case of the louse on the table-napkin. . .) or irredeemable incompetence, or both.

There is no good reason to keep replicating the terminological blunders and ideological biases of the anti-popular May Fourth critics, who used yuanyang hudie pai xiaoshuo as a sweeping epithet of dismissal for rival turf on the literary scene.

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This union exalted him, wore away the rough edges of his character, emotionalized his mental life.