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A 5 page essay that analyzes Yuan-tsung Chen's autobiographical novel The Dragon's Village. The writer contrasts and compares the Communist revolution in China to the changes brought on by industrialization in capitalist countries. No additional sources cited.
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Ling-ling, Chen describes what it was like to participate as a cadre in the land reform that followed the Communist assumption of power. A social upheaval accompanied this change in
power. Wealthy families, such as Chens, fled mainland China for Taiwan, Hong Kong, and points beyond. For those who stayed behind, familial ties were severed. In some ways, the change
that shook China at this time resembled the social upheavals of industrialization, but, as an examination of Chens novel demonstrates, there were also profound differences as well. Chen, like
her protagonist, was faced with a crucial choice at the age of seventeen. She could flee with her family to Hong Kong, marry the young man that had been selected
for her and live a traditional life; or, she could join the revolutionary spirit, which had gripped her homeland, and play a role in reshaping China. Ling-ling does not
switch from a pampered member of the bourgeois to a struggling civil servant working in a remote peasant village overnight. First, Ling-ling persuades her aunt and uncle that she should
stay behind in China and finish her final year of high school while her fiance, Bob Lu, finished his college education, and then migrate with him to Hong Kong. Her
aunt and uncle reluctantly agree. Chen commits that they did not oppose this plan "too vigorously" because they were "apprehensive of providing me to revolt at a time when more
and more young people were boldly going their own way" (35). Ling-ling joins a theatre company, but within a year, volunteers to work on land reform in western Gansu province.
Chens novel is, basically, an account of the authors experiences. Ling-ling (Chen) is, like many young people of the time, intoxicated with the idea of rebuilding their once great,
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