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2013
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Zhang, Menglin. [On the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain's birth]. [ID D29539].
Zhang made Twain out to be a writer with a double character : although his works contain quite respectable satire, he himself was a despicable sort of man : "His fiery satire was born of postbellum American society as well as his personal character and spirit. On the one hand he so skillfully and caustically lampooned society, in his personal life he was as timid as a mouse, henpecked and scrupulously observant of the rules of propriety. If Twain has been born in China, his behavior would certain.ly have been looked down upon, and this scorn would have sounded the death-knell for is works."
Zhang made Twain out to be a writer with a double character : although his works contain quite respectable satire, he himself was a despicable sort of man : "His fiery satire was born of postbellum American society as well as his personal character and spirit. On the one hand he so skillfully and caustically lampooned society, in his personal life he was as timid as a mouse, henpecked and scrupulously observant of the rules of propriety. If Twain has been born in China, his behavior would certain.ly have been looked down upon, and this scorn would have sounded the death-knell for is works."
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