An unschooled young man, among the many victims of Mao's Cultural Transformation, is labouring in the countryside when he is all of a sudden designated to instruct in a near-by town institution. Progressively, he discovers the confidence to ditch the Maoist textbook and also encourage the hardly literate kids to blog about their own lives and feelings. At the same time, via a collection of dream-like meetings with a young cowherd, he starts to sense the possibilities of a life beyond the criteria of typical education and learning.
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An unschooled young man, among the many victims of Mao's Cultural Transformation, is labouring in the countryside when he is all of a sudden designated to instruct in a near-by town institution. Progressively, he discovers the confidence to ditch the Maoist textbook and also encourage the hardly literate kids to blog about their own lives and feelings. At the same time, via a collection of dream-like meetings with a young cowherd, he starts to sense the possibilities of a life beyond the criteria of typical education and learning.
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