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In 1962 Mao Zedong received a confidential report addressed to the top leaders of China. He is said to have reacted by denouncing the report as "a poisoned arrow shot at the Party" and its author as a "reactionary feudal overlord." Two years later the writer was condemned without trial as an enemy of the people, and spent most of the following 14 years in prison or under house arrest.