But, despite the fact that central authorities in Beijing have increased the tenure of land contracts for farmers from 15 years to 30 years, most farmers are still subject to losing their land in periodic " reallocations " by local officials to take into account deaths in some families and coming of age of new farmers in others.
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BashM's own references to this time are vague; he recalled that " at one time I coveted an official post with a tenure of land ", and that " there was a time when I was fascinated with the ways of homosexual love " : there is no indication whether he was referring to real obsessions or fictional ones.
