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Xiao's long march / directed by Wu Gong.
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Wu, Gong.
- Series:
- Filmakers Library online
- Academic Video Online
- Interesting Times ; 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- China. Zhongguo ren min jie fang jun--Military life.
- China.
- Genre:
- Documentary.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (39 min.).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 2003.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Originally released as DVD.
- Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).
- OCLC:
- 794307471
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