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Indeed, with the establishment of the PRC, even pioneer reformers, such as the doyen of Chinese rural studies, Fei Xiaotong, who had sounded the clarion call for rural recovery early in his studies in the 1930s of the intimate relations of the Chinese peasant and the soil (xiangtu Zhongguo), became intoxicated by the dominant approach of subjugatin

18 It is notable that one of the most influential redemptive societies in republican China, the Daoyuan, also predicted the coming of Laozi to usher in a new era just prior to the Japanese military coup in 1931 that established Manchukuo in northeast China.