From China Law Blog:
I watched the first episode of PBS’s “China From the Inside” last night. I watched it with my 9 year old daughter who loves learning about foreign countries. Every ten minutes or so, she would ask about putting in a Gilmore Girls DVD. That made my viewing it more difficult and so if I missed something important here, I apologize.
I was not bored, but I certainly understand why my daughter was. Unlike the last few big China television series I had watched with her, this one (at least its first episode) did not have great music, did not have countless shots of awe inspiring scenery, and did not take really take us into the lives of any individual characters. I remember watching one of these shows last year with my daughter and she kept wanting to know who I wanted to win a small Chinese town’s mayoral election. There was the same sort of election in last night’s show, but my daughter never asked because we were not told enough about the candidates to care one way or the other.
So as a grand television it isn’t. But, it is a surprisingly insightful and meaty analysis of China and I found it very well done and very interesting.[Full Text]
