Children of blessing : an education in China /

Professor Teng Xing is a Beijing-based anthropologist and former Fulbright scholar at UC Berkeley. He has studied the Lahu for over twenty years, and believes the best way to modernize the Lahu is to teach their daughters Chinese so they can enter mainstream Chinese society and lead their people for...

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Other Authors:	Keeley, Brian (Producer)
Format:	Video
Language:	English
Language Notes:	This edition in Mandarin and English with English subtitles.
Published:	New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 2005.
Subjects:	Education, Rural > China. Lahu (Asian people) > China > Social life and customs. Rural children > Education > China. China. China > Yunnan Sheng. Internet videos. Documentary films.
Online Access:	Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)

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Summary:	Professor Teng Xing is a Beijing-based anthropologist and former Fulbright scholar at UC Berkeley. He has studied the Lahu for over twenty years, and believes the best way to modernize the Lahu is to teach their daughters Chinese so they can enter mainstream Chinese society and lead their people forward. In 2001 with Ford Foundation support Teng Xing built a boarding school for 46 girls in the Lahu hills.
Item Description:	Title from resource description page (viewed March 4, 2015). Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (47 min.).
Playing Time:	00:47:07