With so much summary and paraphrase, such constraint on using the works themselves (this is not a critical biography, he says), one wonders who Mr Stape thought was his intended readership.

书中充满了摘要和解释，以及对康拉德作品使用的限制(他说，这不是一本评论性传记)，这让人猜测Stape到底针对的是哪些读者。

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"Getting Near Laoshe: Book Review for Critical Biography of Laoshe by A Manchurian Scholar". National Literature , July 2000, pp. 78~91.

“走近老舍：一位满族学人的《老舍评传》”，《民族文学》2000年7月号，第78~91页。北京。

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But that policy, whose merits are open to debate, does nothing to address sham reviews like the ones posted en masse by Michael Jackson fans pledging to sink a critical biography.

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