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Interesting Times: Xiao's Long March
| Length: | 39 min |
| Released: | 2003 |
| Ages: |
College Adult |
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China has a standing army of more than one million men. For eighteen year old Xiao Zhenning, a poor boy from a provincial town, unemployed and fed up with life in his parents' two room apartment, the Red Army is a place of last resort. As Xiao says ruefully: "With no college education and no job, there is nowhere else to go." The film follows Xiao through his last listless days with his nagging parents in their tiny apartment and into his three months basic training with the Red Army. He learns things about himself and his "place" in China's so called classless society, which both surprise, upset and ultimately liberate him.
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• Interesting Times
"Common threads throughout the videotapes in this set are clearly evident, but each stands alone and could be used productively in support of curriculum related to its individual subject." Sheila Intner, Simmons College GSLIS at Mt. Holyoke for EMRO
