When China was still in the throes of ;he Cultural Revolution, Mou Qiz-hong wrote an essay entitled "Where is China Headed?" For that, he was sentenced to death because, he would later relate, he advocated capitalism before Deng Xiaoping had thought about doing the same. Deng certainly gave Mr Mou his break, if only by releasing him before he was executed. True, he went back to prison for a year in 1983, as atonement, it seems, for making what for the times were obscene amounts of money.
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