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| Gansu schoolgirl Ma Baijuan is one of the three people whose lives are chronicled in the Chinese documentary A Way Out |
But you don't have to go far off your glistening new freeway, past the world's longest bridges, to see rural poverty. It's right there a hundred yards off to the right.
And you recall that several hundred millions of Chinese still live in villages and are literally dirt-poor (and I mean "literally" literally...)
Documentary director Zheng Qiong does something interesting. She follows three Chinese families over six years. One from a village, one from a middling provincial city and one from a wealthy Beijing family. It won't surprise Social Justice Warriors that the outcomes reflect their beginnings.
Better check it out. Seems it's on the internet. A Way Out.
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The wide-ranging attitudes to a university education are just one of a series of differences exposed in a new cinematic examination of China's social class system by documentary director Cherelle Zheng Qiong.
For one it is an unattainable dream, for another it is a passport to a secure future and for a third it is an option to be disregarded.
Over 94 minutes, A Way Out records the lives of three young people from different social levels and regions over six years, as they make the transition from teenagers to adults.
