Description
There are 350 million children enrolled in education across China, and,
in this series, we focus on just a few of them.
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.
The schools 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, not just of a group of children and a
town, but of a side of the Chinese nation seldom seen
Episode 1: The Year of the Golden Pig
As exams approach, planes are diverted away from rural Xiuning's
school so as not to break students' concentration, and the stress builds
on the students for whom the grades mean the difference...
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BBC, Marcus Jones, china, school, history, documentary, year, golden, pig, xiuning, student, grade, free, watch, online
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