Top Cast
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Jiang Yunhui
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Wang Mingzhi
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Tao Wu
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Wang Jian
Overview
A young teacher in the first seventeen years of the People's Republic of China approaches the teaching of her students with a humanistic philosophy, which leads to problems with authorities.
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