An unschooled boy, among the numerous victims of Mao's Cultural Revolution, is labouring in the countryside when he is all of a sudden designated to instruct in a near-by town school. Slowly, he locates the self-confidence to ditch the Maoist textbook and urge the hardly literate youngsters to blog about their own lives and feelings. At the same time, through a series of dream-like conferences with a young cowherd, he begins to sense the opportunities of a life beyond the specifications of traditional education and learning.
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An unschooled boy, among the numerous victims of Mao's Cultural Revolution, is labouring in the countryside when he is all of a sudden designated to instruct in a near-by town school. Slowly, he locates the self-confidence to ditch the Maoist textbook and urge the hardly literate youngsters to blog about their own lives and feelings. At the same time, through a series of dream-like conferences with a young cowherd, he begins to sense the opportunities of a life beyond the specifications of traditional education and learning.
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