Chinese School
Spend a year at a small town school in rural Anhui, China, where a group of families, teachers and children reveal stories of hardship, joy, and success.
Premiere Date
November 24, 2009
Length
30 minutes
There are 350 million children enrolled in further education across China, but Chinese School takes as its subject one small town in rural Anhui, and focuses on the lives of a group of families, teachers, and children during the course of a single academic year.
They are schools like many thousands of others across this vast nation, but through the individual stories of hardship, joy, and success, an extraordinary portrait emerges of a nation, a town, and a group of children in the midst of enormous change.