Greenhalgh's 2003 and 2005 articles place the leadership-consensus material in inverted positions within their shared Kwakernaak-to-Liang narrative arc
The vault's existing observation on the 2005 article establishes that the 1976-consensus sentence ("After Mao's death in 1976, a strong consensus had emerged...," p. 258) sits at the head of that article's Kwakernaak-then- Liang arc — before the Kwakernaak citation (pp. 266–267) and well before Liang's dissent (p. 270). In the 2003 article, per the vault's mapping of its equivalent pp. 178–187 arc, the consensus-equivalent passage (pp. 185–186) instead sits near the end of the analogous sequence: after the Kwakernaak citation (p. 179) and an unnamed citation of Liang (p. 183), inside the second-to-last of five sections, and immediately before the section containing the named Liang dissent (p. 186).
Where the 2005 article opens its arc with the consensus claim and closes it with Liang's objection, the 2003 article places its consensus-equivalent claim as the penultimate beat before the same objection. The same three elements — a leadership-consensus assertion, the Kwakernaak citation, and Liang's dissent — recur across both articles inside one continuous run of text each time, but their order within that run is not fixed: it differs between the two independently structured essays, written two years apart. This is a fact about how Greenhalgh composes this material differently across two tellings of the same episode, not a fact about which telling is more accurate, and it does not by itself resolve the separate dating discrepancy between the two articles' accounts of when the leadership consensus formed.
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“Much evidence suggests that between mid-1978 and mid-1979, China's top leaders and population policymakers were moving toward adoption of a policy encouraging one-child families (p. 185).”
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