Chinese School

Chinese School Series on Link TV

Premieres Tuesday, November 24th at 7:30PM Eastern/4:30PM Pacific!

 

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.

 

Episode Guide - Click for Airdates and Video Previews

Chinese School: The Year of the Golden Pig 

The Year of the Golden Pig

Anhui is proud of two things, tea and teaching. In this first episode of Chinese School we discover just how tough it is to excel in the Chinese education system.

   
Chinese School: Young Pioneers 

Young Pioneers

This episode of Chinese School explores themes of exam pressure, the one child policy, new entrepreneurialism, pollution and the legacy of Chairman Mao.

   
Chinese School: Hard Beginnings 

Hard Beginnings

Eighteen year old Wu Yufei awaits a new life at one of the most prestigious universities in China.  But before studies begin, she must endure seventeen days of compulsory military training.

   
Chinese School: Olympic Fever 

Olympic Fever

China’s first ever Olympic games are on the near horizon. Xiuning county may be 1000 miles from Beijing, but that hasn’t stopped Olympic fever reaching its schools.

   
Chinese School: Loved Ones 

Loved Ones

In the last episode of the series, the whole town is gripped with the excitement of the Spring Festival, which sees the year of the pig turn to the year of the rat.

Airing This Week: "The Year of the Golden Pig"
Chinese School: The Year of the Golden Pig

Chinese School: The Year of the Golden Pig

Anhui is proud of two things, tea and teaching. In this first episode of Chinese School we discover just how tough it is to excel in the Chinese education system, even if you go to a school with a top-class record.
Flash Player 8 and JavaScript required.
Please download the latest Flash Player, and make sure your browser's JavaScript support is enabled.

No Flash?
View QuickTime 350kbps
View QuickTime 60kbps

Anhui is proud of two things, tea and teaching. In this first episode of Chinese School we discover just how tough it is to excel in the Chinese education system, even if you go to a school with a top-class record.

 

Click here for airdates and times.

                

ITVS

Chinese School Series Promo