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STAT!i-MAKTNG TN MODERN 0TTNA, 81-83, 141-44 (2007). Top-down personnel control included strategies of mandatory self-reporting by local officials, as well as the use of top-down inspections by higher-level work teams that paralleled imperial censorate practices. See JEAN C. 0I, STATE AND PEASANT IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF VILLAGE GOVERNMENT, 84-103 (1989). In the face of such management techniques, local officials countered with a range of strategies for evading and concealing negative information. I d., at 104-130.