London Chinese Cultural Centre

A STUDENT’S VILLAGE

• Dir:Wei Xin | 2002 | 110 mins.
• Monday 7th February 2005 7.00 pm (Khalili Lecture Theatre)

In a remote mountainous area of northwestern Yunnan lies a small ‘Student Village’ built by local people to allow their children to attend school. Students live near the school, studying cooking and looking after themselves, thus not having
to travel impossible distances from isolated locations every day.This documentary shows the determination and energy of the locals in assuring a good education and future for their younger generation.

Professor Lu Xinyu teaches in the School of Journalism at Fudan University in Shanghai.A prolific author on media topics, she is best know for her ground-breaking recent book, Documentary China, on the New Documentary Movement in the People’s Republic.