King of the Children (1987)

Overview: An unschooled young man, one of the countless victims of Mao's Cultural Revolution, is laboring in the countryside when he is assigned to teach in a nearby school. Gradually, he abandons the Maoist textbook and encourages the barely literate kids to write about their own lives and feelings.

Starring: Xie Yuan, Xuewen Yang, Shaohua Chen, Caimei Zhang

Categories: Drama