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A 5 page paper which examines which method of initiating change is preferable and more successful by specifically considering “The Dragon’s Village” by Yuan-tsung Chen, “I Rigoberta Menchu” by Rigoberta Menchu and “Conversations With Cuba” by C. Peter Ripley, as well as the films “Huozhe” (“To Live”), “Men With Guns” and “El Che.” Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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File: TG15_TGrefrev.rtf
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("To Live"), "Men With Guns" and "El Che." Bibliography lists 6 sources. TGrefrev.rtf Reform or Revolution: Which Path of Change Should China and Latin America Take? By
Tracy Gregory, For - July 2001 -- properly! Much of the histories of China and
Latin America have been, unfortunately, forged through the upheaval of revolution. It has become such an integral component of the respective cultures and societies that citizens have become almost
blas? about it. To them, revolution does not have a negative connotation, in fact far from it. It is a way of aggressively initiating change, and has been
so successful at doing so that, often, government reforms are described as revolutions in hopes of implementing similarly sweeping changes without any bloodshed. In China, governments do not
change with the times unless they are overthrown. The many dynasties that have ruled China throughout the centuries have done so through the weapons of revolution. No revolution
was more shocking, however, than when Mao Tse-tungs Communists defeated the forces of Chiang Kai-sheks Chinese Nationalists in the 1949 revolution in which the Communists gained control of the mainland
while the Nationalists were forced to retreat to the island of Formosa, now known as Taiwan. For Chairman Mao, revolution was only a means to acquiring power; maintaining power
was accomplished through reforms, as described in Yuan-tsung Chens autobiographical account of her experiences between the revolution of 1949 and the land reform campaigns of 1951, The Dragons Village, first
published in 1981. Prior to the Communist takeover, land had been historically controlled by the aristocratic land-owning class while the peasant majority could only work on the land, never
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