The Land Reform Movement in China

The land reform movement in China
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Introduction
The collectivization of agriculture had a massive impact on the life of the Chinese population where 80 percent of the population were peasants. It was a complicated process due to feudal traditions that had prevailed for thousands of years. Also, after the first land reforms in 1950, capitalist tendencies had emerged on the part of the new small landowners. Collectivization led to class struggles between small and middle-class peasants against the rich. Almost 310 million people took part in the land reform movement of the newly liberated areas. About 300 million farmers were allocated 47million hectares of land and farm tools, livestock and structures. This paper shows that the evidence in the dragon's village confirms the Liu's findings.
Then dragon's village is an extraordinary autobiographical story that is compelling and deeply personal. It plunges readers into the tumultuous period in China that brought about the modern people's republic. The mass movement was a very unconventional political method used by the Chinese, (Perkins, 2017). It was superior to regular organizational means and hence used for many years as a suitable and sufficient instrument of mobilization and governance. The main features of the Chinese Communist mass movement involved the mobilized political involvement of the vast rural masses. It also included state power's direct participation in agrarian society, class categorization, and class struggle.
Readers can look through the eyes of Guan Ling-ling who is a headstrong and idealistic young girl and see what happened during the land reforms. It provides insight into the rest of the world the occurrences during the movement, (Giles, & Mu, 2017). The continuous mass movement resulted into the tension between the dynamics of social transformation and the norms of social governance. The dragon's village indicates the differences in social classes that were present at the time in China.it also show the conflicts that arose from the land reform movement.
Guan Ling-ling was from a stable family that owned their land in Hong Kong. Her family leaves Hong Kong due o the uncertainty around their safety since they were landowners. Ling-long was bold to stay behind though she did not comprehend the proceedings at the time. She joins the revolution and ends up leaving the city to carry out reforms in the Chinese countryside, (Giles, & Mu, 2017). When she gets to the rural village, she can barely understand the lives she is meant to change since it is o different from what she had been used to. This show the difference in social status that was there at the time between the city and the rural areas.
The war between the low-class peasants who were farmers and landowners resulted in displacement and even death of the landowners. Some landowners did not want to give up their land, and even farm produce. Some also went to the extent of killing all their animals eating them to avoid giving them up, (Thomson, 2017). The agricultural collectivization helped in ensuring that even the peasants were able to gain food products easily. This occurred since all food products and farm produce were to be given up to the central government...