Friday, September 30, 2011
BLOG#2
One of my primary source is a movie named “not on less”directed by Zhang Yimou in 1998. This movie describes the situation of education in rural and poverty area of China . The whole cast is real and ordinary people based on the book Raise The Red Lantern by Shi Xiangsheng. The volunteer of Wei Mingzhi who is 13 years old wants to be a teacher instead of teacher Gao in Shuiquan primary school.The reason of teacher Gao have to back home is that his mother is very sick.The job Wei Mingzhi should take care of all students and not one less. Because there were losing thirty to forty students every year who cannot afford the tuition fees.Fianancial problem decides whether the students go to school.Depending on Wei has no education experience.The situation is not under control. Students are playing games in classroom everyday.Only thing she does every day which is counting students.However, one day one of the students,Zhang Huike, is missing.Because she has very poor family and owes money. So she has to work out of home for making money to support family even she is a junior student.Wei Mingzhi is anxious when she know the student out of the school.She is on the way alone to find Zhang in the big city.In big city ,she looks for Zhang everywhere including the schools.She finds the bigger difference between city and village.There are great facility and excellent teachers.And the playground is forth times Shuiquan primary school.Finally,she find the Zhang and convinced her back to school.The movie is happiness and inspiration.
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The first thought I had when reading this related back to your first blog post. The fact that you initially posted about education in China and then found a primary source which talks about education in a poverty stricken area of China shows me that you are quite interested in the topic. One thing I also found very interesting was when Wei Mingzhi goes to the big city. I think there could be much talk about this, in terms of comparing the educational buildings and standards of the big city to rural China. I see you posted a few sentences about this, but I would be interested in hearing more about the difference between rural education and the education in the likely more affluent area of the cities.
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