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| ![Picture shows emancipated serfs from Dagze County throwing title deeds and debt contracts into fire.[Photo/china-embassy.org]](./W020130407324478432268.jpg "Picture shows emancipated serfs from Dagze County throwing title deeds and debt contracts into fire.[Photo/china-embassy.org]")
Picture shows emancipated serfs from Dagze County throwing title deeds and debt contracts into fire.[Photo/china-embassy.org]
On August 10, 1959, serfs from the Gandain Monastery manor burned up Ula corvee contracts, usury contracts and indentures by which they were sold. From then on, the monasteries enjoyed no feudal priviledges.[Photo/china-embassy.org]
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