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Li Rui (1917–2019) was a politician, historian, and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) dissident. Joining the CCP in the 1930s, he became vice-minister of the Ministry of Water Resources by 1958. His vocal opposition to the proposed Three Gorges Dam brought him to the attention of Mao Zedong, Chairman of the CCP. Li impressed Mao, who made him his personal secretary for industrial affairs. However, Li defied Mao at the 1959 Lushan Conference, and was expelled from the party and sent to a prison camp, spending eight years in solitary confinement. After Mao's death in 1976, Li regained an influential position in the CCP, but was eventually forced to resign because he was unwilling to favor the children of powerful party members. In retirement, Li wrote extensively. He called for freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and democracy within a socialist framework, but was censored. Li remained a Communist Party member, respected but isolated, until his death at age 101 in 2019. (Full article...)

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Ganesha811, i am admittedly not sure about this, but i think your rewording would require an extra instance of "was" before "sent to a prison camp" because, now that the sentence has been restructured as a three-element list, the auxiliary verb "was", being part of the second element, is associated only with the phrase "expelled from the party".

before:	Li (1) defied Mao at the 1959 Lushan Conference, and (2) was (a) expelled from the party and (b) sent to a prison camp
after:	Li (1) defied Mao at the 1959 Lushan Conference, (2) was expelled from the party, and (3) sent to a prison camp

personally, i think the wording from before worked better, as it separated action from reaction, but the sentence can also work as a three-element list. dying (talk) 23:08, 10 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I see what you mean, I'll revert it to the 'before' version. —Ganesha811 (talk) 23:17, 10 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

thanks, Ganesha811. dying (talk) 01:21, 11 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]