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Mao Tun and The Wild Roses: A Study of the Psychology of Revolutionary Commitment Yu-shih Chen
After completinghis trilogy The Eclipse in the springof 1928, a physically and mentally exhausted Mao Tun went to Japan, where he stayed from the summerof 1928 to the springof 1930. The series of catastrophes that had befallen his party in 1927-28 continued to tormenthim,l and party politics followed him even to Tokyo. Attacks from severalgroupson the left in Shanghaidirectedat the three novels that made up The Eclipse provokedMao Tun to an angereddefence, " From Kulingto Tokyo " (16 July 1928).A stormof polemicsensued.2
l. Mao Tun arrived in Japan nearly a year after the Wuhan retreat and the Canton Commune of 1927. There is a summary account of the shattering emotional impact on Mao Tun of these setbacks to the Chinese Communist movement in Yu-shih Chen, " Mao Tun and the use of political allegory," in Merle Goldman (ed.), Modern