PBS 好節目－中國高考/China Prep

                   

昨天晚上因為看奧運比賽，PBS Wide Angle的節目隻看了個尾巴，不過感覺很好，最後主持人和原書的作者(哈佛大學教育學院教授, 中國人) 的對話也不錯。昨天的節目是關於中國高考的，跟蹤采訪和錄製的對象是成都一所重點高中高三的應屆考生及他們的家長對高考的預備，付出和回報。今天查了PBS網站，對這次的節目有更多的了解。這裏轉貼PBS網站的介紹，有興趣的話不妨去看看。去年PBS的另外一個紀錄片China From Inside 我也很喜歡，播了不少在一般的關於中國的紀錄片裏麵看不到的情況，看問題的角度也不錯。

 

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/china-prep/introduction/810/ (retrieved on Aug.13,08)

 

China Prep
Introduction

• China Prep ~ The Gaokao: How Would You Fare?

• China Will Not Tolerate Cheating on College Entrance Exam

• Chinese Students Return to School at Earthquake’s Epicenter

• China Prep ~ Audio: When China Becomes the World’s Largest Economy

• China Prep ~ Production Diary III

• China Prep ~ Resources

• China Prep ~ Production Diary II

• Japan’s About-Face ~ Audio: The U.S.-Japan Alliance

• Japanese Destroyer Docks in China

• China Prep ~ Production Diary

As the world’s attention turns to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, WIDE ANGLE reports on how the next generation of Chinese leaders is being molded.

China Prep follows five Chinese students through their final high-pressure year at an elite high school in Sichuan Province. Eighteen hundred students vie for spots in Beijing’s top two universities. Last year only 59 made it.

Studying seven days a week, the students’ lives are regimented almost every minute of the day as they prepare for the end-of-year exam that can determine their fate. For many students from poor or rural backgrounds, a strong performance on the test is the only way to climb the social ladder and excel without connections. Competition is fierce and the majority of high school seniors will be relegated to vocational schools.

We meet Zhang Lie, who wants to study law and become a Communist Party member like her father; Mei Jiachin, a genius mathematician from a farming family; Chen Zhibo, a misfit science student with big plans to become China’s Bill Gates; and Gao Mengjia, a dedicated student who loves money and aspires to be a hedge fund manager.

Nicknamed the “I want” generation by the Chinese press, these only children,  the sole focus of their parents’ and grandparents’ nurturing under China’s one-child policy, will be the new class of corporate managers, lawyers, and civil servants who are expected to propel 21st century China to surpass the United States as the largest economy in the world.

How do the ambitions of these teenagers reflect the realities of today and tomorrow’s China? Who among them will be most likely to succeed, the daughter of the Party official or the farmer’s son? Who will be the boss?