The paper shows that in Chinese author Chen Yuan-tsung's novel "The Dragon's Village", land reform was hardly welcomed with
open arms by the Chinese
peasantry. Rather than acceptance, the individuals who took to the fields and rice paddies of China to spread the doctrine of
communism, found a peasantry largely hostile to the ideology they espoused. The paper analyzes the heroine of the book, Guan Ling-ling and the conflicting emotions she has towards the ideologies of Communism.