Why Poverty?

Episode
China’s Ant People
Broadcast Info
2012 (59 mins)
Description
What does an education get you? Education is the only way out of poverty, as it has been sold to the Chinese population since ancient times. China’s economic boom and talk of the merits of hard work have created an expectation that study is to escape poverty. Yet it seems the system only leads to jobs for a few, and debt for all. Weijun Chen’s film set in Wuhan in central China, looks at the realities of Chinese education through the lives of Wang Zehziang, a tutor at a private college, Wang Pan, high school graduate and would-be university student and Wan Chao, graduate jobseeker.
Genre
International Development; Social Work; Health and Social Care

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The Open University, "Why Poverty?". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/83355 (Accessed 09 Jan 2025)