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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.

 

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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

From compulsory military training to exhausting study schedules to being apart from their parents for the first time, Chinese students at all levels struggle at the beginning of the new academic year.

   
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.

Featured Episode: "Loved Ones"
Chinese School: Loved Ones

Chinese School: Loved Ones

In the last episode of the series, the whole town is gripped with the excitement of the Spring Festival which sees the passing of a new year; as the year of the pig turns to the year of the rat.
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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.

 

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