An unschooled young man, among the countless 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 village institution. Gradually, he finds the confidence to ditch the Maoist book and also motivate the barely literate kids to write about their own lives and feelings. At the same time, through a series of dream-like conferences with a young cowherd, he starts to sense the possibilities of a life beyond the specifications of traditional education and learning.
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An unschooled young man, among the countless 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 village institution. Gradually, he finds the confidence to ditch the Maoist book and also motivate the barely literate kids to write about their own lives and feelings. At the same time, through a series of dream-like conferences with a young cowherd, he starts to sense the possibilities of a life beyond the specifications of traditional education and learning.
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