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8.3/10   408 votes
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Director:
Weijun Chen
Contact:
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Genre:
Documentary
Plot:
Democracy in China exists, that is, in a primary school in Wahun where a grade 3 class can vote who they want as class monitor. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
4 wins more
User Comments:
This documentary itself actually made cases for both pro-democracy and more

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Runtime:
Canada:58 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
Language:
Mandarin
Color:
Color

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This documentary itself actually made cases for both pro-democracy and, 1 May 2008
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Author: zombie_archer from United States

Many people don't realize there are village and town level elections in China. I'm fairly certain at least over 90% if not all of the villages and towns have leaders democratically elected. (Note: the government usually don't pick the candidates, but voting fraud happen from time to time from what I heard. Yes, this is what happens when there's a democracy without proper voter education and regulations, most importantly, without a real voting culture. people just buy votes.) Therefore I have no reason to question the authenticity of this documentary. Common, it's an election between three third graders.If you think Chinese government care enough to stage this documentary you are most definitely paranoid.

This documentary itself actually made cases for both pro-democracy and anti-democracy arguments. On one hand, it's scary to have uneducated voters and unregulated voting process in a democracy; on another hand, without real democracy, the imitation can only be so crude and cruel.

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