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| | EastSouthWestNorth: The Letter of Li Datong |
 | | Their director Li Fang said, "If I wrote anything like this, I would chop my hand off!" So this is a mysterious matter: those who were criticized were willing, even content, to be criticized, but the critic was criticized by the top leadership in the form of a document. |
 | | One was the maverick editor Li Datong, 52, a tall man with a scholarly air who had spent his entire career at the China Youth Daily and helped turn the official organ of the Communist Youth League into one of the country's best papers. |
 | | Li holed up in his apartment, and two days later, emerged with a 13,000-word letter that denounced the point system, saying it would "enslave and emasculate" the paper, cause circulation to plummet and put the Daily out of business. |
| www.zonaeuropa.com /20050817_2.htm (9270 words) |
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