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Description

This engaging book sketches an intimate portrait of the life of Wang Fucheng, an illiterate peasant who served for thirty years as Communist party secretary of an impoverished village on the north China plain. Born in 1923, Wang Fucheng rose under the Communists from extreme poverty to a... read more

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First Sentence

"Our people came from under the stork's nest in the big locust tree" is a common saying in Houhua Village and the surrounding area.

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  1. Peter J. Seybolt (Author)
 

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