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Inside the home of Yan Hongchang, the village leader who convened the secret meeting where Xiaogang's inhabitants signed a pact to abandon communal farming. All knew that decollectivization was a heresy; the contract included a clause that obliged the commune to look after their children if the signatories were sentenced to death or prison


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