| 1 | The position of the middle peasants is especially important in the old Liberated Areas where the middle peasants are the majority and the poor peasants and farm labourers a minority. | |
| 2 | Becoming suspicious, his fellow-tenants followed him and saw that he was on very good terms with the landlord. "Why?" | |
| 3 | In old China, poor farmers and farm laborers, who accounted for 70 percent of the rural population, owned only 10 percent of the land. Women had no right to own any land. | |
| 4 | Many years before when they had revolted against the landlords in their own villages, these former tenants had disinherited themselves from the protection of established society. |