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Until the policy began to be gradually introduced, all Chinese peasants were grouped into production teams that worked the land in common. Each laborer earned work points, which were exchanged for a ration of grain and a small cash stipend. But in Jun Tan, as in an estimated 40% of China's villages, work points have now been abolished. Instead, each family has been allocated a plot of land to farm as it sees fit. The peasant gets seed and fertilizer free the first year; the second year the farmer uses his own money, or borrows...
Musical Evening--Priscilla Halberg, violin, and Lawrence Berman, piano; music of Handel, Mozart, Vitalli and Prokoflev; Peasant Stock Restaurant, 415 Washington St., Somerville...
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