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Thinking Reports enable the prisoners to wash their brains, and become new!" he announced cheerfully. "Washing the brain is very important to your reform, and improving your real situation.
Dominic Stevenson Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China
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Thinking Reports enable the prisoners to wash their brains, and become new!" he announced cheerfully. "Washing the brain is very important to your reform, and improving your real situation.
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Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China

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