Provocative films about art and culture.
Another chance to see David Hinton's Bafta Award-winning documentary telling the story of a group of classically trained music students during China's Cultural Revolution. Once the Cultural Revolution started in the mid-sixties, students at the Central Conservatoire in Beijing had to accept that the traditions they had so far studied were bourgeois and counter-revolutionary. They had to travel across the country playing approved music, and were then sent to labour camps, where they suffered for years before eventually being able to start to practise music again.
Piano student Anxi Jiang, her mother and classmates are at the centre of this film, which uses archive material and traditional and modern music to relate the musicians' experiences.
People's Century considers China's history tomorrow at 10.30pm on BBC1.
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