China

These stories are essentially the same thing.  The people wish to destroy the old, gentry way and establish a new way of doing things.  They take a more orderly route at first, but quickly ditch their initial plans after a few days of discussion and angst.  The second story begins violently and end violently.  The students wish to destroy the old government and culture.  They go so far as to ignore the Constitution of the People's Republic, claiming that it was abolished and that they only recognize the teachings of Mao Zedong.  The differences in the two stories are small and show the horrors on land reform in China.  The reformers often ignored any systematic, legal, and fair source to achieve justice, choosing to simply kill or torture whoever they please.