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Long Bow Revisited: Prisms, Prejudices and Insights
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2009
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2. The current charges against Dazhai extend far beyond exaggeration of output or lying about extensive state aid. Aside from pursuit of ultra-leftist practices, they include the waging of bloody class struggles and the promotion of factionalism in Shanxi province, a joint relevant to this book. For a report by the Shanxi Party Committee on Dazhai, see Xinhua-Beijing, 11 February 1981. Foreign Broadcast Information Service, No. 28 (11 february 1981), L9 et seq.
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