“China today has 7,000 collectivized villages where all property is municipal, residents live in identical apartments, and workers are paid in coupons, not currency. These atavistic communities decided to readopt Mao’s strict policies, unwound elsewhere in the country since 1979. The town of Nanjie, population 3,500, recollectivized in 1990. It is the only village still explicitly devoted to Mao’s cult of personality.”