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Left-behind children trilogy. The ninth grade / a film by Jiang Nengjie.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children of migrant laborers--China--Hunan Sheng.
- Children of migrant laborers.
- Rural children--China--Hunan Sheng.
- Rural children.
- Poor children--China--Hunan Sheng.
- Poor children.
- Education, Rural--China--Hunan Sheng.
- Education, Rural.
- Ninth grade (Education)--China--Hunan Sheng.
- Ninth grade (Education).
- Achievement tests--China--Hunan Sheng.
- Achievement tests.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Feature films.
- Ethnographic films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (69 minutes)
- Other Title:
- Ninth grade
- Place of Publication:
- [China] : Orient Indie Films, 2014.
- Language Note:
- In Chinese with English and Chinese subtitles.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- The ninth grade symbolizes the end of nine-year compulsory education in China. It depends on students' performance in the High School Entrance Examination to decide if they can continue studying.The film tells the story of a group of children from an honors class preparing for the examination in Hunan province. Most of them are left-behind children, and studying has become the only way to have better future. However, as adolescents facing heavy homework, the pressure of preparing for the exam, the lack of funds and family education, they are at a crossroads in their lives - Can they change their own destiny?The Ninth Grade is the second documentary of Jiang Nengjie's left-behind children trilogy.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed September 23, 2020).
- OCLC:
- 1200165529
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