Born two years before Mao Zedong’s Communist Revolution, Jin Liqun was “sent down” by the party to help rural peasantry as a young man, and spent his teens farming paddy rice, wheat and cotton in the sunbaked countryside. In the evenings, he volunteered to keep the village accounts in a thatched hut by kerosene-lamp—a job which allowed him to indulge his passion of reading whatever dogeared Chinese and foreign texts he could procure.

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