An unschooled boy, among the countless targets of Mao's Cultural Change, is labouring in the countryside when he is suddenly designated to instruct in a near-by village college. Slowly, he finds the confidence to ditch the Maoist book and urge the hardly literate children to write about their own lives as well as sensations. At the same time, with a collection of dream-like meetings with a young cowherd, he starts to sense the possibilities of a life beyond the specifications of standard education and learning.
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An unschooled boy, among the countless targets of Mao's Cultural Change, is labouring in the countryside when he is suddenly designated to instruct in a near-by village college. Slowly, he finds the confidence to ditch the Maoist book and urge the hardly literate children to write about their own lives as well as sensations. At the same time, with a collection of dream-like meetings with a young cowherd, he starts to sense the possibilities of a life beyond the specifications of standard education and learning.
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