It’s the start of a new academic year. For eighteen year old Wu Yufei, a new life awaits at one of the most prestigious universities in China. But before she can start her studies, Wu Yufei must endure seventeen days of compulsory military training. It’s also a hard beginning for the infants at Ping Ming Primary School. Each child has been hand picked to receive free education at the charity run boarding school, but learning to live without your parents aged seven, isn’t easy. And for the students enrolling at the county’s best school, the new term represents the start of a rigorous daily schedule which starts at 5:30am and doesn’t finish until 9:40pm, in preparation for the pressures of the National College Entrance Exam.
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There are 350 million children enrolled in further education across China, but ‘Chinese Schools’ 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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